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In Your Daily Writing Habit Christine "Ink" Whitmarsh shares her expert writing secrets so YOU can write (and finish!) a book that changes lives! Christine's mission is to inspire and help as many people as possible to share their stories and life lessons in book form, thereby transforming the lives of others. Christine, a celebrity ghostwriter, bestselling author, and book coach, is the owner of The Ink Agency, a professional book services agency serving clients worldwide since 2003 (formerly Christine Ink - Writing With Impact). The Ink Agency helps authors write, publish and promote extraordinary books that drive powerful brands. Over the course of her 18 years as a professional writer, Christine, a "creative scientist" by nature, has mastered the process of developing, writing and COMPLETING top quality books.
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” — Doris Lessing
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“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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Today on Your Daily Writing Habit: How adopting a "Top of Heart" worldview saved Grant Muller's life and created a mission to help others in business sell more, achieve more, and find more fulfillment in life!
Meet Grant:
Grant Muller is a Certified High Performance Coach™ and REALTOR® on a mission to help high achievers who have tried every tool and tactic to sell more, achieve more, and find more fulfillment, but aren't quite making the progress they desire.
In his book Top of Heart®, Grant shares his story of becoming a millionaire before 30, followed by a downward spiral that caused him to lose everything. By finding the humility to ask for help and the courage to get real, Grant moved past addiction and homelessness and built a remarkable real estate career as a consistent 7 figure earner.
Grant knows what it takes to sell, and it all starts with a heart-centered approach. He volunteers on the board of One Colorado to ensure all of us have a seat at the table.
Connect with Grant: grantmuller.com
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“1. Keep your hand moving. 2. Don't cross out. 3. Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar. 4. Lose control. 5. Don't think. Don't get logical. 6. Go for the jugular. That is the discipline: to continue to sit.” — Natalie Goldberg
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"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over." - Paulo Coelho
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Hello YDWH listeners and welcome to an exciting week of lesson reinforcements here on Your Daily Writing Habit! I’ve carefully selected an assortment of some of my favorite author soap box topics to help you write and finish writing a great book. And be sure and tune in on Monday July 10th when I return with brand new episodes, and a special announcement, followed by a high impact author book launch interview on Wednesday July 12th. Thanks for listening and have a great week!
Today’s Episode: 142
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Hello YDWH listeners and welcome to an exciting week of lesson reinforcements here on Your Daily Writing Habit! I’ve carefully selected an assortment of some of my favorite author soap box topics to help you write and finish writing a great book. And be sure and tune in on Monday July 10th when I return with brand new episodes, and a special announcement, followed by a high impact author book launch interview on Wednesday July 12th. Thanks for listening and have a great week!
Today’s Episode: An Interview with "Go Giver" Bob Burg!
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Hello YDWH listeners and welcome to an exciting week of lesson reinforcements here on Your Daily Writing Habit! I’ve carefully selected an assortment of some of my favorite author soap box topics to help you write and finish writing a great book. And be sure and tune in on Monday July 10th when I return with brand new episodes, and a special announcement, followed by a high impact author book launch interview on Wednesday July 12th. Thanks for listening and have a great week!
Today’s Episode: 650
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Hello YDWH listeners and welcome to an exciting week of lesson reinforcements here on Your Daily Writing Habit! I’ve carefully selected an assortment of some of my favorite author soap box topics to help you write and finish writing a great book. And be sure and tune in on Monday July 10th when I return with brand new episodes, and a special announcement, followed by a high impact author book launch interview on Wednesday July 12th. Thanks for listening and have a great week!
Today’s Episode: 301
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Hello YDWH listeners and welcome to an exciting week of lesson reinforcements here on Your Daily Writing Habit! I’ve carefully selected an assortment of some of my favorite author soap box topics to help you write and finish writing a great book. And be sure and tune in on Monday July 10th when I return with brand new episodes, and a special announcement, followed by a high impact author book launch interview on Wednesday July 12th. Thanks for listening and have a great week!
Today’s Episode: 762
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Hello YDWH listeners and welcome to an exciting week of lesson reinforcements here on Your Daily Writing Habit! I’ve carefully selected an assortment of some of my favorite author soap box topics to help you write and finish writing a great book. And be sure and tune in on Monday July 10th when I return with brand new episodes, and a special announcement, followed by a high impact author book launch interview on Wednesday July 12th. Thanks for listening and have a great week!
Today’s Episode: 450
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Today’s Episode: 975
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book:
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg.
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“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.” ~Rod Serling. Presumably.
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Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 181: All The Times I Almost Quit Writing and Why I Didn't
Original Release Date: Oct 08, 2019
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." -Lance Armstrong.
Revealing the times throughout my life I could have easily quit writing - why I kept going.
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"The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship." -Robin Sharma
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"A writer's block is not a barrier; it's an invitation to explore uncharted territories within your mind and soul." - Unknown
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“All of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.” – Tom Peters
Referenced today:
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“Human beings aren’t designed to expend energy continuously. Rather, we’re meant to pulse between spending and recovering energy.”
– Tony Schwartz
Discussed in Today’s Episode:
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-create-your-reinvention-road-map-in-four-easy-steps
Your Brain Likes Habits:
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The Power of the Curve:
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“Truth is the crossroads of perspective.”
― Stewart Stafford
As we do every Saturday here on the show, here’s a writing assignment for your weekend to keep those creative sparks firing in your brain, your writing muscles toned and for those of you with a work in progress, give you a break to explore different creative avenues. Because who knows what discoveries you might end up bringing back with you to your manuscript!
My survivor story: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“A picture is worth 1000 words but a sentence is worth 1000 pictures.” -Michael Patrick.
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“Procrastination is not a time-management problem, it’s an emotion-management problem." -Tim Pychyl, associate professor of psychology at Carleton University.
Procrastination is an emotional problem
https://www.fastcompany.com/90357248/procrastination-is-an-emotional-problem
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Mentioned today, my Book Blueprint: https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
The dishwasher magnet sign: https://amzn.to/42M1OA7
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"Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become." -James Clear
Here’s this week’s mindset Monday tip: Vote to resist habit-breaking temptations.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
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“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
As we do every Saturday here on the show, here’s a writing assignment for your weekend to keep those creative sparks firing in your brain, your writing muscles toned and for those of you with a work in progress, give you a break to explore different creative avenues. Because who knows what discoveries you might end up bringing back with you to your manuscript!
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Welcome to Flashback Fridays on YDWH, when I dig deep into the YDWH episodes vault and pick past lessons to revisit, reinforce, and reexamine. Because learning is never a linear process.
This week, flashing back to 2020, with questions I posed to authors about what kind of shift we might we post pandemic. Did this episode "age well"? Listen and find out!
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“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.” -John Updike
3 specific tips for writing a book when you literally don’t have time to write a book.
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“For each subpart of your problem, you search far and wide so you can go beyond your industry. You go beyond your main domain of inquiry. You ask yourself how other industries solve for this subproblem.”
-from a McKinsey & Company interview with author Dr. Sheena Iyengar
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-on-books/author-talks-why-problem-solving-is-the-key-to-innovation
My curvy, curvy life path: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“It's very simple; just look at your life to see where you're heading. You're always in a momentum of something.” ― Maria Erving
A tip for bouncing back after author setbacks.
Mentioned in today’s article:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90863981/brains-survival-guide-to-get-motivated-after-setback
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“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” ―Alberto Manguel
This week’s Mindset Monday tip: It all starts with the belief that your words can change at least one person’s world. Start there.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book:
https://amzn.to/43Q6MN1
My personal stories of navigating change (including one life and death one): http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
Also related to today’s topic: https://www.profgalloway.com/struck/
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“The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.” -Watkin Tudor Jones
Stories of my career path as crooked as my spine and how I turned lemons into lemonade (#mixedmetaphors): https://christine-ink.com/the-power-of-the-curve/
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Today, a research based discussion about the correlation between fiction books and emotional intelligence (EQ).
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Referenced in today's episode:
https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-case-for-reading-fiction
Original University of Toronto research on reading fiction and cognitive closure:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247163935_Opening_the_Closed_Mind_The_Effect_of_Exposure_to_Literature_on_the_Need_for_Closure
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“But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad.” – Walt Unsworth
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Here today on Your Daily Writing Habit to talk about how authors can use chatGPT in a good way - to help with our content strategy - is my friend, social media strategy expert Francine Sinclair.
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Francine Sinclair, a Content Repurposing Specialist and former Corporate English Trainer, excels at transforming social media content creation for online CEOs. Drawing from her experience training C-suite executives abroad, she understands the complexities of global business and tailors her approach to diverse cultures. Francine's background also includes homeschooling her children, cementing her commitment to perseverance. A Tampa Bay local, she's a staple in the business community. Her services revitalize existing video, written, or podcast content, and she unveils untapped potential in your content. Whether a budding startup or an experienced CEO, Francine's skills can help magnify your online presence and business growth.
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“AI is computation; best guesses based on statistics. It is work; joules of energy dissipated through the movement of information. Despite the flashy new veneer, AI is not a revolution in communication but in productivity. It’s not the printing press or telegraph, it’s the assembly line, the jet engine, technologies that produce work rather than transfer information. And for knowledge workers, the latest developments in AI represent a new paradigm for work.”
-Konstantine Buhler
Article by Konstantine Buhler on what AI is versus what it is not:
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"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." — Gustave Flaubert
Here’s this week’s mindset Monday tip: The hardest parts of sticking with the habit ARE the habit.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book:
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
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“When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.” ― Charles Baxter
This weekend's writing exercise for authors!
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“The next message you need is always right where you are.” – Ram Dass
Is it really worth it to write a book? The short answer is – only if you really want it...
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Grant’s book unboxing:
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Here’s today’s quote: “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all.” -Oscar Wilde
Labels without a story attached are magnets for misunderstanding. Here's what I mean...
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Here today on Your Daily Writing Habit to talk about The Wall of Awful and how it impacts authors with ADHD is an internationally recognized expert on the subject, Brendan Mahan.
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Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS., is the host of the ADHD Essentials Podcast, an internationally recognized expert on ADHD/Executive Function, anxiety, and neurodiverse parenting. He is a highly engaging, sought-after speaker, coach, and consultant. A former teacher, mental health counselor, and principal, Brendan helps individuals, families, schools, and businesses manage the challenges of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, anxiety, and neurodiversity through an approach that blends education, collaborative problem-solving, and accountability with compassion, humor, a focus on strengths and growth, and his trademark "Wall of Awful™" model.
Brendan has been featured in the Washington Post, Bustle, LinkedIn, Understood, Tilt Parenting, How to ADHD, ADD Crusher TV, and ADDitude. He has consulted on several books, is on the board of Men's ADHD Support Group and is part of the organizing committee for the International Conference on ADHD. Contact him at brendan@ADHDessentials.com.
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Today’s quote and today’s episode are on in the same. Here is a short piece from a recent Seth Godin daily email newsletter...
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” -Fernando Pessoa
This week’s mindset Monday tip!
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: - Writing About Your Life: A Journey Into the Past by William Zinsser.
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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens
This weekend's introspective writing prompt!
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“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” ― Mary Holloway
5 tips to stay sane (and productive) while pitching your book to agents and publishers.
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“When the sun is shining
Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the chores, but to create and innovate.
And yet, some days feel more conducive than others. There are moments when it simply flows.
When the surf’s up, cancel everything else. Don’t waste it.
Postpone the dentist, outsource the grocery shopping and leave your email for now.
Make hay.”
-Seth Godin
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“I ask you though, in listening to what I say, to remember that all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it. What is truth to one may be disaster to another. I do not see life through your eyes, nor you through mine. If I were to attempt to give you specific advice, it would be too much like the blind leading the blind.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
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“Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.” -Margot Robbie
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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
-Lemony Snicket
Be sure and share today's episode with the new college grad in your life!
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This week’s Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/3We9cT5
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
-B. F. Skinner
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“You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain. ”― Jefferson Smith
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"We don't make mistakes -- we just have happy accidents." -Bob Ross
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“American intellectuals, when they appear in European accounts, are assumed to be mere representatives of some Western archetype of the quote unquote noble savage or sock puppets, used as plausible alibis to an author, who might otherwise get into trouble for presenting subversive ideas (deism, for example, or rational materialism, or unconventional views on marriage).” -“The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity” by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
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“Versatility is an extra string to a player's bow.” -Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
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“Discontent is the nagging of the imagination. Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering: "Not this.” ― Glennon Doyle
This week's Mindset Monday question!
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“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” -Robert Burns
Continuing on with this week’s theme that I call - Motivational quotes we hear and see all the time and we THINK we know but when is the last time you really thought about or applied the thinking in those quotes?
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"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs
Continuing on with this week’s theme that I call - Motivational quotes we hear and see all the time and we THINK we know but when is the last time you really thought about or applied the thinking in those quotes?
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"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns." - Octavia Butler
Continuing on with this week’s YDWH theme: Motivational quotes that we hear and see all the time and we THINK we know but when is the last time you really thought about or applied the thinking in those quotes?
Talking character archetypes today based on a conversation over the weekend with writer husband.
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https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/o/othello/character-analysis/iago
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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” ― Henry Ford
This week on YDWH: Motivational quotes that we hear and see all the time and we THINK we know but when is the last time you really thought about or applied the thinking in those quotes?
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: “Take Control of Your Job Search: 10 Emotions You Must Master to Land the Job” by Impact Group CEO Lauren Herring.
Job searchers - get your copy: https://amzn.to/3LbE0Pj
Leaving a Knowledge Legacy: https://youtu.be/Dk32PL41n1I
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"I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.” ― Suzanne Young, The Program.
A writing prompt for your weekend to keep those creative sparks firing in your brain, your writing muscles toned and for those of you with a work in progress, give you a break to explore different creative avenues. Because who knows what discoveries you might end up bringing back with you to your manuscript!
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“And talking about books as though something were at stake in a book. Not opening up a book to worship it or be elevated by it or to lose yourself to the world around you. No, boxing with the book.” ― Philip Roth
Author Question: I'm about to send beta copies to the family members mentioned in my book to review. How long of a deadline is typical? And if they don't respond do I move forward without their feedback/approval or do I change their names?
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“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” -Brandon Sanderson
Today's episode is especially for nonfiction authors!
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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston
A brief inspirational message about seeing the true potential of your book.
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“Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster
3 questions you can use to interview yourself before writing your memoir or other book with sensitive subject matter.
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“All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.” -Noreena Hertz
This Week’s Mindset Monday tip: Don’t let someone else’s subjectivity squash your book writing goals.
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Putting aside the playbook, speaking from the heart, and sharing your story. A lesson for those in business and how it translates to authors.
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“Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.” -Roger Ebert
As we do every Saturday here on the show, here’s a writing assignment for your weekend to keep those creative sparks firing in your brain, your writing muscles toned and for those of you with a work in progress, give you a break to explore different creative avenues. Because who knows what discoveries you might end up bringing back with you to your manuscript!
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“Dare to ask questions. There are answers to any question.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
"People keep saying to write a book, but realistically, how do I know if I actually have the skills needed to do it?"
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"Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." -Anton Chekhov
3 action exercises to spice up your scene writing.
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“Avoid unnecessary amplifiers. This is extremely unique vs This is unique. I’m very upset vs I’m upset and I love you a ton vs I love you. Sometimes, more words aren’t better.” -Seth Godin
How Seth and valued others ended up in my junk mail plus a writing fundamentals tip.
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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.” ― Julian Barnes
Is your book's launch day a fuzzy image in the rearview mirror? Wondering how to put all your hard work to continued use? Today's episode is for you!
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“Our habits, preferences and idiosyncrasies make perfect sense. We each know that we have great reasons to embrace our ways and stick with them. Other people’s habits, though, show that they are simply picky, weird or too sensitive. The difference between a preference and a foible seems to be mostly where we’re standing.” -Seth Godin
This week's Mindset Monday tip for authors: Filtering all the advice.
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“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
Your weekend writing prompt!
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"Books are the most enduring monument of man's achievement. Through them, civilization becomes cumulative." - George G. Simpson
Here’s this week's question: What’s the point of writing a book, when in the age of technology there are SO many other ways to get your words out?
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin
The thing at the heart of every book.
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"An author's life is one of writing things down nobody else would write, not writing things down everybody else does." - Truman Capote
Being a "spark of interesting" as an author.
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“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.” ― Carl Sagan
Exploring the counterintuitive.
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“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.” ― Angela Duckworth
This week's Mindset Monday tip for authors!
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“Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.” ― Lauren Oliver
As we do every Saturday here on the show, here’s a writing prompt for your weekend to keep those creative sparks firing in your brain, your writing muscles toned and for those of you with a work in progress, give you a break to explore different creative avenues. Because who knows what discoveries you might end up bringing back with you to your manuscript!
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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” ― Graham Greene
This week's listener question: General writing fundamentals question – how do I know how much to explain in my writing and how much to leave to the reader’s imagination and interpretation?
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“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” –Robert Louis Stevenson
3 ways to read like an author.
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“Wherever you go, you meet part of your story,” – Eudora Welty
3 reasons why memoir is more literary than biographical.
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” - Hans Hofmann
3 tips for using scene cards to help organize your book.
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“Not taking things personally is a superpower.” – James Clear
Here’s this week’s Mindset Monday tip: Shore up your self-worth, mindset, and other mental health coping mechanisms before beginning the query (or self publishing) process.
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http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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"Journaling is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time," -Mina Murray
3 Power of the Curve journaling prompts.
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“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” —Toni Morrison
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“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” —Booker T. Washington
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“Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.” -Virginia Woolf
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“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” -Helen Keller
Stuck in the noise, waiting for life to begin?
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Here’s today’s quote: “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” ― Albert Camus
This week's Monday Mindset tip AND the theme of this week's episodes and guess what day it is today?
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery
A story excerpt and in intriguing, self-reflective writing assignment for authors.
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“Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return.” -Carl Jung
This weekend's writing prompt deals with archetypes - enjoy!
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“Even when we think we’re seeking pleasure, we’re actually driven by the desire to free ourselves from the pain of wanting.” ― Nir Eyal
Here’s this week's question: I know I "should" turn off my technology and all that when I’m in the writing cave but every few minutes or so I slip and go online and start surfing social media. I don’t even know why and sometimes don’t even realize I’m doing it until a few minutes in. I’ve tried to go cold turkey and do social media fasts and stuff like that but none of it seems to work. Trust me when I say I AM committed to writing my book, I have a strong why and all that, but I just have this really bad habit and it keeps getting in the way of my writing caves. What do I do???
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“Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise”
— Michael Jordan
3 key writing fundamentals I look for when analyzing client manuscripts.
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“I was standing at the top of the long flight, overlooking the red brick buildings that walled the snow-filled quad and preparing to catch the trolley back to the asylum, when a tall young man with a rather ugly and bespectacled, but intelligent face, came up and said, “Could you please tell me the time?” I glanced at my watch. “Five past four.” - The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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“The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.” -Chris Van Allsburg
What made a show about people drinking at a bar so darn irresistible? And what does it have to do with your book?
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“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.” -Vincent Van Gogh
This week's Author Mindset Tip: Don't feel lik you need to rush your book idea.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/3ldShCi
The Monster Under the Bed: Uncovering the Lie that Drives Us, by Kim Fiske
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“If you’re going to trust one person, let it be yourself.” – Robert Tew
This weekend's writing prompt!
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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.” ― Stephen King
Today's Author Question: You’ve mentioned on your podcast about how you’re a book coach and I was wondering how that’s different from a ghostwriter and how I would know if I need either type of person? I have a book idea and I’ve done a little outlining so far but that’s it. Thank you!
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5 Things to Know Before Hiring a Book Coach:
https://christine-ink.com/book-coaching-2/
“One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.” -Robert Kiyosaki
A short and sweet message about not reinventing writing wheels.
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https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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"It's rarely doing the work that is hard, it's starting the work. Once you begin, it's often less painful to continue working. This is why—in the beginning—it is often more important to build the habit of getting started than it is to worry about whether or not you are doing enough.” – James Clear
3 questions/encouraging thoughts from the part of your brain that actually wants you to write a book.
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“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.” -Chuck Palahniuk
The flexibility and depth of contrasts as a literary tool for authors.
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“Do not suffer in silence. Somebody somewhere is willing and prepared to help in any way to encourage, empower, and support you.” ― Germany Kent
This week's Mindset Monday tip: You don’t need to be the stereotypical reclusive slightly mad author working alone in a boathouse to be successful.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection:
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield.
https://amzn.to/3l0CoyK
Questions to ask in the face of procrastination.
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“I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.” -Maya Angelou
This weekend's writing prompt will help with character dev and personal empathy.
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“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.” -Peter Drucker
It pains me to admit it, but I’ve somehow slid fully away from my work in progress. I think I remember you talking once about how to come back to your manuscript in these situations? Can we get a refresher please since I’m sure I’m not the only one, thanks!
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“Tears are words that need to be written.” -Paulo Coelho
Power of the Curve: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.” ― Anton Chekhov
A series of specific questions to make "show don't tell" more actionable for you as a writer.
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“With the Top of Heart worldview, we get permission to bring humanity into every business process - sales, service, leadership. Business relationships are not separate from personal relationships. Top of Heart is about relearning what human nature already knows: business relationships come from the heart not the head. We stop swimming against the tide. We bring the art of persuasion back to square one and relearn what our hearts never forgot,” – Grant Muller
Learn more about Grant’s Top of Heart worldview:
https://www.grantmuller.com/site/book
Check out the novel that started as a screenplay:
http://www.canyonroadnovel.com/
My original screenwriting mentor:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050276/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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“If you're going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
This week's author mindset tip is also today's quote and some brain science to back it up!
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way, by Brendon Burchard.
https://amzn.to/41P7N8b
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“Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.” -Michael Winter
This weekend's writing prompt is related to yesterday's episode of YDWH (Fri. 3/3 episode #1395).
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“If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter.” -the earliest recorded attribution of this quote is to French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal from his work "Lettres Provinciales" in 1657. (Not Mark Twain as many believe.)
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Mentioned in today's episode - Willie Handler: https://twitter.com/WillieHandler
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“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." -Kurt Vonnegut
If you’re a person who is creating regularly, it’s not always going to work out - thoughts for authors, creative professionals, and people who hire creative professionals on the subjectiveness of creativity.
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“In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” ~Erik Erikson
Incorporating the universal topic of identity, in your writing.
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“As a writer you should not judge, you should understand,” ~Ernest Hemingway
Part 10 - Likely the final installment of my AI and Authors series - and the most actionable one yet.
Catch up on prior installments of the series:
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
Part IV : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1352-ai-and-authors-part-4/id1467760106?i=1000594869988
Part V: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1359-part-5-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000596219444
Part VI: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1366-part-6-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000597375966
Part VII: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1372-part-7-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000598417217
Part VIII: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1378-part-8-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000599498852
Part IX: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-9-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000600769661
Great listing of AI productivity tools to explore:
https://www.francinesinclair.com/blog-1/ai-tools-streamlining-your-business-with-ai-technology
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"Never stop challenging and competing with yourself. You are the best measure of how much you have learned, improved, and grown." -Stefan Falk
This week’s author mindset question: How do you measure your growth as an author?
Referenced in today’s episode:
https://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2023/02/intrinsic_motivation_how_to_be.html
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book is:
"We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal." by Seth Godin
https://amzn.to/3KAdRLw
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“Being a little weird is just a natural side-effect of being awesome.”
-Attributed to Sue Fitzmaurice and various other sources.
This weekend's creative writing prompt - make it weird!
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“Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
This week's listener question: I’m thinking of writing a memoir but I have about 5 different angles to my life story and lessons I think I could approach it from. How do I pick the right one?
Mentioned in today's episode: https://christine-ink.com/brainstorm-like-a-ghostwriter/
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“Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.” -Deborah Day
4 steps to writing accountability for authors.
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“Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” -Christian Lous Lange
Catch up on the rest of my AI and Authors series:
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
Part IV : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1352-ai-and-authors-part-4/id1467760106?i=1000594869988
Part V: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1359-part-5-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000596219444
Part VI: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1366-part-6-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000597375966
Part VII: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1372-part-7-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000598417217
Part VIII: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1378-part-8-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000599498852
“Here’s How Art Schools Are Dealing With The Rise of AI Generators”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpzz3/ai-art-in-schools?mc_cid=acf61852cb&mc_eid=054f120c04
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"Before you throw more time at the problem, throw more focused action at the problem. You don't need more time, you need fewer distractions." -James Clear
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A very special extended Sunday Story Time episode featuring the book:
"Police in the Hallways: Discipline in an Urban High School" by Kathleen Nolan
https://www.amazon.com/Police-Hallways-Kathleen-Nolan/dp/0816675538/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VDIWZLOE2F6Q&keywords=police+in+the+hallways&qid=1676506187&sprefix=police+in+the+hallways%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1
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“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.” ― Mary Anne Radmacher
This weekend's writing prompt looks inward... a revealing list making activity.
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“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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“It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” ~Albert Einstein
Here are 3 ways to get re-energized, reconnect, and recharge that "lost" book writing project (admit it, you know the one)... And the 3 way is FUN!
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"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” ~Herman Melville
A process to find out what your book is "really" about.
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"Picture a man in charge of weapons for a medieval king. If he is scientific minded, he will try to improve his bows and arrows by working on different parts of the product. The searcher may be assigned to study the properties of feathers. He will try to improve the breed of birds, study feather selection, and storage, investigate whether they should be trimmed ½- or ¾-inch wide, and so on. This man will conduct what many call 'scientific research' for years. He may achieve many improvements, giving arrows better stability and accuracy; but what is the chance that such a man will ever invent a gun? If he should hear about one, the chances are he will do his best to point out how unstable and dangerous it is to carry a powder horn, how inaccurate the new guns are, and how many families depend for their livelihood on the chicken feather business."
That extended quote is from the authors George Steele and Paul Kircher from their 1960 book - The Crisis We Face: Automation and the Cold War
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
Part IV : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1352-ai-and-authors-part-4/id1467760106?i=1000594869988
Part V: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1359-part-5-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000596219444
Part VI: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1366-part-6-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000597375966
Part VII: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1372-part-7-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000598417217
Seth Godin – The Coming Ubiquity:
https://seths.blog/2023/01/the-coming-ubiquity/
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“Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.” ~Jay Shetty
Here’s this week's author mindset tip: When it comes to big giant unexpected obstacles being thrown smack dab in the middle of your path, attitude is EVERYTHING.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: https://www.amazon.com/Unleash-Power-Storytelling-Hearts-Results/dp/0991081420/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1675905322&sr=8-1
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” -Hunter S. Thompson
Your "big game" weekend writing prompt (even if you're not a big game fan).
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“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.” ― Sue Grafton
Here's this week's author question: I am in the final editing stages of my nonfiction book, a thought leader style book, and it’s getting harder and harder to pull the trigger and send this beast to press. Mainly because I keep coming up with new ideas I want to add into the book or expand on ideas that are already in there. I don’t want to miss anything. Help – how do I stop my edits but also with peace of mind that everything I want in the book is in there???
My free Brand Messaging Bank guide:
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“Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.” -Robert McKee
It seems like these days – story is the star... here's why.
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Kathryn Goldman is an intellectual property and internet law attorney who helps creative professionals protect their work so they can profit from it. She has helped countless writers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs move from early stage ideas to licensing their work or optioning their books and building their businesses. She is the editor of the website: Creative Law Center. The Creative Law Center gives innovative creatives the business and legal perspective they need when making the move from artist to entrepreneur with understandable and actionable information.
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A follow-up article to one of our conversation threads today:
https://copyrightlately.com/artists-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-ai-art-tools/
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"Resenting a new technology will not halt its progress." -Philosopher and professor Marshall McLuhan
Part 7 of my AI and Authors Series
Check out the prior installments:
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
Part IV : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1352-ai-and-authors-part-4/id1467760106?i=1000594869988
Part V: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1359-part-5-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000596219444
Part VI: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1366-part-6-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000597375966
Not catching on fire but not perfect either:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/25/23571082/cnet-ai-written-stories-errors-corrections-red-ventures?fbclid=IwAR06PX9WxJCfwqWdAdXoAYhZYSdVIH1t4ukDLoaswYIItLyp6XRNPGLc6v0
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” — Henry Ford.
Here’s today’s author mindset question: Where in your life are you an expert and where are you a novice?
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This week's Sunday Story Time featured book:
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.
By James Clear.
https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/0735211299/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1675028945&sr=8-1
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“Self-awareness is not something you can buy, it's not something you can acquire from another person, it's a state of being that you create for yourself." - Unknown
This weekend's (memoir) writing prompt.
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“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Here’s today’s FAQ: How do I know when enough time has passed after a very personal and traumatic event in my life where I will be able to write about it objectively?
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“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." ~Kurt Vonnegut
A writing fundamentals episode - 8 ideas to consider when structuring your book.
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Mellissa Seaman is a business strategist, intuitive channel, world renowned retreat leader, sought after media speaker, and host of the Channel Your Genius podcast.
A Stanford educated former business lawyer, she is also an adopted EarthWisdom ceremonialist of the indigenous Tlish Diyan tradition, a potent Energy Healer, and a highly regarded professional intuitive.
Mellissa bridges the worlds of business strategy and intuitive development to guide professional women in midlife to clarify their deepest purpose, do business with heart and ease, and step into a new level of leadership as what she calls Wise Women Queens.
Mellissa has guided her clients to six million dollar windfalls, creating fun business quizzes that go viral, and new careers that integrate their intuitive gifts without losing respect, relationships, or revenue.
You may know her as the "LawyerShaman" who empowers formally corporate women in midlife to become professional wise women as respected spiritual guides, transformative teachers, and oracles of industry without losing respect, reputation, or revenue. But what you might not know about her is that she lives with a herd of goats that sometimes end up climbing onto the roof of her house.
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“A company asked why it was so hard to hire a good writer. I told them it was because good writing is an illusion: what people call good writing is actually good thinking, and of course good thinkers are rare.” -Paul Graham
Previous installments of my AI and Authors series:
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
Part IV : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1352-ai-and-authors-part-4/id1467760106?i=1000594869988
Part V: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1359-part-5-ai-and-authors/id1467760106?i=1000596219444
Quick ChatGPT how-to in case you haven’t played with it yet:
https://fosterinstitute.com/cybersecurity-concerns-and-fun-with-chatgpt/
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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." - Aristotle.
Which other domains of knowledge, which other pieces of your identity, are you actively bringing into your book writing?
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the peril of the digital age by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne, with a foreword by Bill Gates,
https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Weapons-Promise-Peril-Digital/dp/1984877739/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1674850940&sr=8-1
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“Some people mistake grit for sheer persistence - charging up the same hill again and again. But that's not quite what I mean by the word 'grit.' You want to minimize friction and find the most effective, most efficient way forward. You might actually have more grit if you treat your energy as a precious commodity.” -Reid Hoffman.
This weekend's author writing prompts!
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien.
This week's author FAQ: "I could be mistaken, but I think I’ve heard you mention that writing caves can be as brief as 15 minutes long? No disrespect intended but what can I realistically expect to accomplish in just 15 minutes?"
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“Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.” ― Don Miguel Ruiz.
Reframing of the criticism we receive as authors.
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“Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.”― Bruce Lee
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and application for authors is a fun new writing game!
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“Would it make a difference if every single response began, “I’m just a beta of a program that doesn’t actually understand anything, but human brains jump to the conclusion that I do, so take this with a grain of salt…” In fact, that’s our job. When a simple, convenient bit of data shows up on your computer screen, take it with a grain of salt. Not all email is spam. Not all offers are scams. And not all GPT3 responses are incorrect. But it can’t hurt to insert your own preface before you accept it as true. Overconfidence isn’t the AI’s problem. There are lots of cultural and economic shifts that it will cause. Our gullibility is one of the things we ought to keep in mind." -Seth Godin
Part 5 of my AI and Authors series!
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
Part IV : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1352-ai-and-authors-part-4/id1467760106?i=1000594869988
https://seths.blog/2023/01/overconfidence-and-ai/
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“I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.” — Arlene Dickinson
This week's Monday Mindset Tip for authors.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book:
Metaxa Stars: The evolution of a Greek Spirit Within Generations by Zika Metaxa.
https://www.metaxastars.com/
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“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” ― Terry Tempest Williams.
A writing prompt about breaking old familiar patterns, whether your own, or intergenerational ones you find yourself unconsciously following.
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“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.” ― Joan Aiken.
Here’s today’s FAQ: I’ve heard you talk on previous episodes about reducing the number of adjectives and adverbs we use in our writing. My question is, by how much? Are you saying not to use ANY in our writing? That seems unrealistic.
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Today I'm throwing it WAY back to Episode 01 of YDWH with a content lesson for you and reflections on the difference between then and now.
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“A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.”
-Isabel Allende
How and when I "broke" the reason people hate memoirs and why I have zero regrets about it.
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“Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way.“ -Tom Freston, Co-founder of MTV
Part 4 of my (quite accidental) AI and Authors podcast series.
The AI and Authors series:
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Part III: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1345-ai-and-authors-part-iii/id1467760106?i=1000593401869
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“To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can’t be said so well with words.” -David Lynch
Mastering the dance between the concrete and abstract aspects of writing habits.
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Today's Sunday Story Time Featured Book:
https://amzn.to/3w3i8hQ
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“Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.” – John C. Maxwell.
This weekend's self awareness prompt to add depth to your writing.
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“If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there’s no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let’s go.” – Jeff Bridges
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“Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.” -Angela Duckworth
2 "G's" you need for book writing success AND bonus... 3 strategies to achieve each one.
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“Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their worlds through the magic of imagination, creates this shock of recognition. Without this empathy there can be no genuine dialogue, and we as individuals and nations will remain isolated and alien segregated and fragmented.” -Azar Nafisi.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it's actionable for ALL types of authors, fiction and nonfiction alike.
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“The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.” -Arthur Koestler.
Part III of my ongoing thoughts about the impact of AI on authors.
Recent YDWH episodes on AI and Authors:
Part I: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
Part II: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1338-ai-and-authors-part-ii/id1467760106?i=1000592019840
Sourced for today’s episode:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p9jx/nyc-bans-students-and-teachers-from-using-chatgpt?mc_cid=20c317b35c&mc_eid=054f120c04
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/04/apple-artificial-intelligence-ai-audiobooks?mc_cid=20c317b35c&mc_eid=054f120c04
https://seths.blog/2023/01/patterns-culture-and-theft/
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“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” -Steve Jobs.
This week's Monday Mindset Tip for Authors!
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: https://amzn.to/3icVDUq
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“For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.” -Michael Dirda
Source of today's questions: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arati-sharma-6198186_reflections-newyear-seasongreetings-activity-7013438527317164032-RCJR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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“Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent -perfection is impossible.” — Michael Hyatt
Today’s question is from an author named Alex: “Can you tell me - how important is it to have a url for a book?”
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." –C.S. Lewis.
7 questions to answer before writing your book.
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"Anyone can listen. All you have to do is stop talking.
But to be a good listener, you have to stop talking and be interested.
Genuine curiosity is the precursor to understanding, and a good listener helps the other person feel understood."
-James Clear
Applying this quote to ourselves as authors.
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“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” -Napoleon Hill
Part I of this conversation: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1327-the-ai-proof-writers-soul/id1467760106?i=1000591082107
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"You can graduate with the finest degrees. You can read the most useful books. You can enjoy the loving support of family and friends.
But your degrees can't take action for you. Your books can't make the decision for you. Your family can't live your life for you.
There is no substitute for courage. At some point, you have to make the choice."
-James Clear
This week's author mindset tip is my version of James Clear's quote above.
Mentioned in today's episode: https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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Something I do every year on New Year's here on Your Daily Writing Habit.
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“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
A New Year's eve journaling prompt for authors.
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“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs
Mentioned in today's episode: https://christine-ink.com/self-publishing-your-book-dont-sell-yourself-short/
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"You've been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you." - Clarence the Angel from the classic film It’s a Wonderful Life.
Why is the film It's a Wonderful Life still a holiday classic after 75 years? Writing theories in today's episode.
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“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” -Aristotle.
Some holiday weekend somewhat philosophical ponderings about the difference between authors and... well... normal people.
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“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." -Carl Bard
Authors - are you ready for 2023? With the exercises and questions in today's episode you will be!
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“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu
An easy 3-part, 1 minute mindset warm-up to shift your writing brain into "create" mode from the "react" mode of regular life.
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Today I’m doing something I’ve done at Christmas time for the past few years here on the show, and reading a very special letter to the editor. In way of tradition, and because I think it’s something our imagination and our inner child always need to hear, here it is again. I hope you enjoy this reading.
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“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” –Edith Sitwell.
This weekend's creative writing prompt.
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“Technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.” ― Steve Jobs
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/16/1059598/this-artist-is-dominating-ai-generated-art-and-hes-not-happy-about-it
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“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.” -Socrates
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton
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“There are no original ideas. There are only original people.” -Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.
Mentioned in today's episode:
https://theprofile.substack.com/p/james-clear#:~:text=ller%20Atomic%20Habits%2C%20has%20been,too%20late%2C%22%20he%20says.
https://www.oberlo.com/blog/atomic-habits-by-james-clear-summary
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“Life is like an empty field. With intention it becomes a garden, without it weeds and debris will take over. Something will grow either way, but it’s your choice what takes root.”
-John Steinbeck
Referenced in today's episode: https://metaversalwellbeing.com/2022/11/29/whats-it-all-for/
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The 3rd and final segment of my holiday book gift guide. This week's theme is books about resilience!
Get the books:
Metaxa Stars: https://www.metaxastars.com/
Shift the Narrative:
https://www.shiftthenarrative.com/
Power of the Curve:
http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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This weekend's writing prompt and PLEASE share your results in my Ink Authors group on Facebook - this one's too fun to pass up!
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“Despite the natural belittling of one's self, the doubts, the insecurities, we have to wake up to the realisation that we all write our own autobiography, we are the authors of our life story. Realising that, write a good story with your life and make sure to write yourself as the protagonist. Be the hero of your journey.” -Yossi Ghinsberg.
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“The joy of being an author: saying with your words what brings the ah-ha to the reader.” -Judith Briles
4 advantages in daily life we get to enjoy as authors (sorry mere mortals...).
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On today's episode: This week's #WriterWednesday quote.
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” -Carl Jung.
Mentioned in today's episode:
https://www.janefriedman.com/building-your-writing-self-efficacy
https://psychology.iresearchnet.com/sports-psychology/body-image-and-self-esteem/self-schema-definition/
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“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.” – Confucius.
This week's author mindset tip: “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” isn’t the most productive success strategy.
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12/11/22
This week's Holiday book gift recommendations:
No Fear Allowed by Laura Herring:
https://www.amazon.com/No-Fear-Allowed-Perseverance-Making/dp/1630474916/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670116644&sr=8-1
Take Control of Your Job Search by Lauren Herring:
https://www.amazon.com/Take-Control-Your-Job-Search/dp/1735258512/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670117374&sr=8-1
The P.I.L.O.T. Method by Elizabeth McCormick:
https://www.amazon.com/Pilot-Method-Elemental-Leading-Yourself/dp/1629030082/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HGRAKD9ARV2R&keywords=the+pilot+method+elizabeth+mccormick&qid=1670117491&sprefix=the+pilot+method+elizabeth+mccormick%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1
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12/10/22
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand in the cold.” -Aristotle
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12/9/22
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.” ― Neil Gaiman
This week's Friday FAQ: People keep telling me I should write a book but I haven’t the first clue as to what to write about. Where do I begin to figure it out?
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12/8/22
“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”― Oscar Wilde
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12/7/22
“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” ― Stephen King.
Making Mr. King's actionable for this fine #WriterWednesday.
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12/6/22
"Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose." - Edward de Bono
Action questions to determine your author values and attach them to your goals.
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12/5/22
“You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.” -Sean Covey
This week's author mindset tip: Be a writer doing, not just an author being.
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.nirandfar.com/labeling-yourself/?vgo_ee=xpd3skDLHlyKBa%2FqZm5AvMRu3dnJIctYxYLdHGGVzcI%3D
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12/4/22
Even When She Rose by Marie Crews:
https://www.amazon.com/Even-When-Rose-Marie-Crews/dp/1959009052/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1669584969&sr=8-1
Abruptly Alone: A Widow’s Memoir by Jeannie Meach Fredrick:
https://www.amazon.com/Abruptly-Alone-Widows-Memoir-1/dp/1543987052/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2E65TNGBABHA4&keywords=abruptly+alone+jeannie&qid=1669585333&sprefix=abruptly+alone+jeannie%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-1
Heaven’s Bell (AND the companion journal) by Sherrie Barch:
https://www.heavensbell.com/
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12/03/22
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” ― Bruce Lee
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Fri. 12/02
“You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.”
― Chef Jiro
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12/1/2022
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“What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.” ~Logan Pearsall Smith.
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” -Napoleon Hill
Mentioned today:
My DIY Blueprinting Guide: https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” -this quote has been attributed to many sources, but the earliest variation came from Cora L.V. Hatch in 1859
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Today's featured Sunday Story Time story: https://www.rd.com/article/thanksgiving-story/
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“Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.” ― Mia Hamm.
A special "episode 1300" message and a writing prompt for you on the subject!
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“Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place – from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.” -Meg Rosoff
This week's FAQ: What is your #1 piece of advice for an author who is self publishing?
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“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie.
Thanksgiving "year in review" gratitude questions for your journaling.
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“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin.
How can the old medical school adage "watch it, do it, teach it" be applied to author content strategy?
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“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
How can you prepare in advance for the distractions and disruptions that will inevitably confront you while building your writing habit?
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“The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.” -Conrad Anker.
This week's Mindset Monday message is about taking chances way outside your comfort zone!
Mentioned in today's episode: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/ https://christine-ink.com/word-count-as-a-hypothetical-metric/
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: Take Control of Your Job Search: 10 emotions you must master to land the job by Lauren Herring, CEO of IMPACT Group https://www.amazon.com/Take-Control-Your-Job-Search/dp/1735258512/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1668375715&sr=8-1
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“Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you.” — Lady Gaga.
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“True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world” ~ Patricia Hampl.
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“I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.” -Chadwick Boseman.
Mentioned in today's episode about content strategy for authors: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-episode-948-promoting-your/id1467760106?i=1000542839731
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“A tree's wood is also its memoir.” -Hope Jahren
A memoir writing prompt (useful even if you're not writing a book that you think of as a "memoir" genre wise).
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“The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.” – Peter Abelard.
Mentioned in today's episode: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” – Roy T. Bennett.
Truth bomb for this week's Mindset Monday about why we REALLY cancel writing caves.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: The Mindful Millionaire: Overcome scarcity, experience true prosperity and create the life you really want. https://www.mindfulmillionairebook.com/
Leisa's YDWH interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-an-interview-about-creating/id1467760106?i=1000555719993
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ― C.G. Jung
Stretch those writing muscles with this weekend's writing prompt.
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“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” ― Maya Angelou.
And p.s. the Happy 247th Birthday to the USMC message in today's episode goes in yesterday's, 11/10 - My apologies for the oversight and a happy belated but just as meaningful birthday to all the USMC veterans and active duty Marines!!!
Mentioned in today's episode: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“Idea generation is about quantity, not quality. Multiplication, not subtraction. Editing comes later. The goal of brainstorming is to walk out with buckets of ideas, not one precious idea perched on a pillow.” ― Sam Harrison.
Going behind the scenes and revealing 3 pieces of my ghostwriting process that you can use in YOUR book brainstorming!
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Zika Metaxa grew up in an internationally known family spirits business, founded by her ancestors in 1888. As a marketer, she traveled the world promoting the family spirit, as a member of the family business and then, for the multinational company that acquired the Metaxa brand.
After becoming a mom Zika left a career in marketing, advertising, and retail and turned her attention to more intimate, creative pursuits. She first penned a children’s book in her native Greek language. Her new book, an English language memoir, “Metaxa Stars: The Evolution of a Greek Spirit Within Generations,” shares stories and lessons growing up Metaxa. She is currently developing her third book.
More about Zika and her new memoir about "growing up Metaxa": https://www.metaxastars.com/
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“A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...” ― C.J. Heck
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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ~ Confucius.
This week's author Mindset Tip: If something's not working (like your book writing strategy) - don't scrap it, modify it.
The post in my Ink Authors group where I posted still photos of my fail and a video of the successful modification: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/permalink/1799433953743406
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - "Metaxa Stars: The Evolution of a Greek Spirit Within Generations" by Zika Metaxa: https://www.metaxastars.com/
Tune in on Wed. 11/09 for my interview with Zika Metaxa!
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“To me, Writing is Fun. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, as long as you can tell a story.” ― Stan Lee
A fun fiction writing story prompt to spice up your weekend!
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“If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.”― Ruthie Lindsey.
This week's author FAQ: “I got my hands on this book and it's just changing my life. How would I find the author's info to send an email or some communication to thank her?”
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“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Doing NaNoWriMo? Bookmark this episode for times when you miss your word count target! Not doing NaNoWriMo? Same applies if you're writing a book and miss your word count targets for an extended period of time. Here's how to get back on track and keep going.
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“Guilt is rooted in actions of the past, perpetuated by the lack of action in the present and delivered in the future as pain and suffering.” -David Rappo
Something I came up with recently... drive by habits post-its and how they can be a valuable self-learning hack for you in setting your writing habit.
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“A habit is a routine or behavior that is performed regularly and, in many cases, automatically.” -James Clear.
Happy November - here's some science related to avoiding habit-related mental overwhelm!
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Referenced in today’s episode: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/cognitive-load-theory.htm
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“Slow and steady wins the race, not the person who wants to climb the whole stairs in one stride.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson.
Mentioned in today's episode - my 5 step self editing process: https://christine-ink.com/extreme-editing-5-steps-to-a-better-book/
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: “On Writing Well” by William Zinsser.
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“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ― C.G. Jung.
This weekend's Saturday writing prompt!
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“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” –Martin Fisher.
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“If we want to feel an undying passion for our work, if we want to feel we are contributing to something bigger than ourselves, we all need to know our WHY.” ― Simon Sinek
Why an author's WHY can be a lifeline throughout the book writing process and beyond.
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“Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.” -Amanda Palmer
If you struggle with asking for help, especially when you're struggling in the book writing process, this episode is for you.
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“The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.” — Henry David Thoreau
A theory... that word count is a hypothetical author metric without this other key metric FIRST.
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“Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.” -Norman Cousins
This week's Monday Mindset message for authors.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - "Even When She Rose" by Marie Crews: https://amzn.to/3yTqCdw
Listen to my YDWH interview with Marie - great lessons for first time authors: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-an-interview-about-advice/id1467760106?i=1000577214188
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“Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.” ― Steven Pinker.
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“Organization begins with awareness of what doesn’t work for us.” — Unknown
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"You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world." -Oprah Winfrey.
How to connect your life joy and author joy.
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“There are times I see what other people are doing and feel "I should do that too" and then I pause and smile and remember I am on a different path.” -Greg McKeown
Why telling a querying author to "just self publish" is like telling the owner of a brick & mortar business - "just become an online business." Two separate business plans.
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"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." -Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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“There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.” -Esperanza Spalding.
Maslow graphic mentioned in today's episode: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjqs94yPdov/
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This week's Sunday Story Time featured book: The Power of Bad: How the negativity effect rules us and how we can rule it. By John Tierney and Roy F. Baumeister.
https://amzn.to/3ysSVip
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“Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.” -Donatella Versace
Here's your weekend writing prompt - off the beaten path this week!
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"A winning effort begins with preparation." - Joe Gibbs.
This week's Friday FAQ: "I’m planning on self-publishing my book in about 6 months, and just thinking of all the stuff I feel like I’ll need to do already feels overwhelming. Where do I start?"
Mentioned in today's episode - learn how to create your own bank of words to help market your book: https://theinkagency.net/product/brand-bank-guide/
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“I've reached that final moment of editing a book—the one where the text manifests as a living breathing person and starts slugging me in the face.” -Richard Due.
A 3-step process to "define your done" - how to know when you're done editing your manuscript.
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“Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.” - H. Jackson Browne.
A big gift of the rough draft writing phase that I hope you're not overlooking.
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“Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.” ― Margaret Atwood.
Scott H. Young's LinkedIn post referenced in today's episode: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-h-young-867ab21_productivity-activity-6984218842365317120-MchD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford
Instead of focusing on all the reasons why you can't finish writing your book, look for evidence as to why you CAN do it. 3 question prompts.
Referenced in today's episode, my recent interview with author Tom Bentley: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-an-interview-about-writing/id1467760106?i=1000580207793
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://amzn.to/3yaygzx
About your writing cave...
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“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” - Abraham Maslow
A journaling prompt to acknowledge your 2022 and prep for a successful 2023.
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“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.” -Chris Pine
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“In innovating and inventing, an “overnight success” is really “overnight recognition” for a process that began first with curiosity which then transformed into learning and then evolved into an iterative process of trying, failing, and trying a different way, over and over, until finally the breakthrough was achieved. The initial spark of curiosity and willingness to constantly learn from failure are keys to the ultimate success.” -Russell Redenbaugh
In a crowded publishing market, quality is your most powerful way of standing out from the crowd. And you can't rush quality.
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“The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.” ― Henry Green
The gifts and opportunities of the book editing process.
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“The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.” -Raymond Chandler.
Fiction writing episode today!
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“Doing the difficult things that you’ve never done awakens the talents you never knew you had.” — Robin S. Sharma.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - "The Power of the Curve": http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Bertrand Russell.
A fun Halloween-themed short story prompt to kick off October!
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“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” ― Yogi Berra.
My step-by-step process for answering questions like - How many words should I write per week? How many hours should I write? An organized path to your book writing goals!
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“Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.” – Dallin H. Oaks.
Is the "Amazon Bestselling Author" club bursting at its seams in recent years? Today I'll share 3 things that are far more important than a marketing label.
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The final results of a psychology study revealed that THREE specific tools resulted in the highest percentage of participants reaching their predetermined goals. In today's episode I'll reveal what they are AND offer you a way to deploy all 3 of them!
Link to study summary: https://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1265&context=news-releases#:~:text=Matthews%20found%20that%20more%20than,themselves%2C%20without%20writing%20them%20down.
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“Forgive yourself; you are not perfect. Show yourself grace; you are still learning. Show yourself patience; you are on a journey.” — Shannon Yvette Tanner.
I've recently had to make some sacrifices to reach my bigger goals. Why this is okay and also how it affects you as an author.
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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” -Confucius
This week's Monday Mindset Tip: How to get through a moment of panic that you can't do the thing (like finish writing your book).
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This week's Sunday's Story Time selection: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World Class Performers. By Tim Ferriss.
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“We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” -Katie Thurmes.
This weekend's creative writing prompt!
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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer.
When someone asks you how many hours you write every day...
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“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” -Steve Jobs
So you think you're doing a great job filtering out the "noise" of the internet... today's brief message is designed to help you tune your awareness to be absolutely certain that you're protecting your creative brain (and the rest of it).
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We talk about Tom's teenage shoplifting memoir, an upcoming memoir about his 30+ years of correspondence with the Jack Daniels distillery, a 1960's airstream trailer writing cave, and HABITS! You'll laugh, you'll learn... you'll wonder how he avoided jail time.
Learn more and connect with Tom: https://www.tombentley.com/
Tom's habits-rich article in Jane Freiedman's newsletter that prompted me to reach out to him: https://www.janefriedman.com/persistence-pays-the-weary-writer/
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“Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” – Henry Ford.
Blog post mentioned in today's episode: https://christine-ink.com/3-lessons-from-being-coached/
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“Remember why you started, remember where you’re headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.” — Ralph Marston.
Mindset Monday! Authors - thinking about quitting on your book? 3 strategies and a recent victorious client story to help you power toward the finish line!!!
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This week's Sunday Story Time featured book: “We are all weird. The rise of tribes and the end of normal” by Seth Godin. https://amzn.to/3xefF57
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“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” - Mary Lou Cook.
Pick an eccentric movie director... and that's where this weekend's writing prompt begins. A super fun creative writing exercise to help your work in progress!
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“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.” - H. Stanely Judd.
This week's FAQ: "I’ve heard you talk a lot about how important it is to create social media content about our books. How am I supposed to be creating social media and editorial content around my book if I only just started writing it? Should I be starting this early or did you mean later?"
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“I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.” -Mary Wesley
“I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.” -Frank McCourt
“We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.” -Carl Sandburg
How to create a working title for your book strong enough to keep your writing journey on track.
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Interview episode today! What authors can learn from entrepreneurs with big visions, featuring writer/rebel entrepreneur Madeleine Wyke Silva, creator of the 7-Figure Freedom Method. She arrived in America from Sweden at age 19 with 2 tiny suitcases - and one whole suitcase was filled with books!
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“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” ― Albert Einstein.
What would it mean for you as an author if you found out that you use BOTH sides of your brain, equally?
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“Storytelling is our obligation to the next generation. If all we are doing is marketing, we are doing a disservice, and not only to our profession, but to our children, and their children. Give something of meaning to your audience by inspiring, engaging, and educating them with story. Stop marketing. Start storytelling.” ~Laura Holloway.
For business authors (and aspiring ones) - a compelling argument in favor of adding a memoir element to your business book.
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Today's Sunday Story time piece: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/
"Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11." 9/2/21 Authors: Hannah Hartig and Carroll Doherty.
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“Write about the emotions you fear the most.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson
Taking a break from our recent Saturday self-awareness prompts - let's have some fun!
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"Coaching works because people learn by doing what they would have done anyway - just smarter, faster, better, and with support and feedback." ~Consulting Today
Today's Listener Question: Why would I need to hire a book coach rather than just writing my book myself? Is it really that hard to do?
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“If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” ~ Dan Poynter.
Indulge me please in a micro philosophical pondering today, for all of us as authors, especially in light of the past 2 years.
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Are you on the fence about publishing your book as an audio book? Need details on what the process entails? Whether you should voice it yourself or hire an actor? On today's YDWH, I spend some time with voice actor and audio book pro Kris Keppeler to answer those questions and more! Kris also shares some entertaining tales from her work as a voice actor and narrator.
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“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath.
If you're an author launching a book in the next 3-6 months, today's episode is for YOU!
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“The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression; the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.” -Alfred Bougeart
The real secret sauce to my clients' book success.
My Book Blueprint guide: https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/ Coupon Code to make it free: INKFRIENDS
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This week's featured Sunday Story time book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. https://amzn.to/3co8kZB
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“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build.” -Robert Collier.
Launching a book soon? A book launch, promoting, market-y writing prompt for your weekend.
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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston
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Link to the interview I referred to with librarian Lauren Cleveland with all sorts of great tips for authors, especially independently published ones about how to get your book into libraries: https://youtu.be/enRw3yAYaUY
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"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought." - Albert Einstein
3 ways to switch up book structures and present your stories and messages in more creative packaging!
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"It can be a great advantage to (1) be somewhat restless and (2) have very high standards. Holding yourself to a high standard prevents you from jumping into whatever new thing comes your way. It encourages you to be thoughtful and ensures you remain patient for the right opportunity. However—because you are somewhat restless—you are always digging around and watching for opportunities. When most people stop searching, you continue to explore. And when an opportunity comes your way that meets your standard, you'll be more likely to notice it and more likely to act upon it immediately." -James Clear
How our #WriterWednesday quote above speaks to the balancing act of habits.
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"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a person's life is made up of nothing but the habits they accumulated during the first half." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Elevating casual insults to literature.
Mentioned in today's episode: https://nosweatshakespeare.com/resources/shakespeare-insults/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-episode-1183-social-media/id1467760106?i=1000571323642
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"Life presents an endless series of interruptions and distractions. You will continually be pulled off course or asked to put out a fire created by someone else. People will disrespect your time and steal your attention—usually with no intention of malice, but simply because different people have different priorities. When your day is interrupted or your progress stalls, it's easy for your mindset to collapse as well. You may feel guilty for not following through on what you intended to do. But you are not guilty, you are human. Everyone gets distracted. In many ways, the real divide is between those who get back on track quickly and those who let interruptions expand into longer periods of inactivity. Top performers get back on track faster than most. This is the skill to develop. You will be interrupted, but you can choose to keep it brief." -James Clear
On today's show: The specific type of habits needed to write and finish writing a great book.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - Ring to Remember: A Heaven's Bell Grief Journal and Memory Book https://amzn.to/3ctJyaD
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“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.” ― Jim Rohn.
This weekend's writing prompt is based on the series finale of the hit TV show "Better Call Saul" - but don't worry if you haven't seen a single minute of the series... still a great writing exercise for you!
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“Good cover design is not only about beauty... it’s a visual sales pitch. It’s your first contact with a potential reader. Your cover only has around 3 seconds to catch a browsing reader’s attention. You want to stand out and make them pause and consider, and read the synopsis.” ― Eeva Lancaster.
This Friday's author frequently asked question: How do I find a cover artist?
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“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.” ― W.H. Auden.
My response when I hear authors fret - "But surely someone has written about this before!"
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An interview with novelist, journaling pro & personal development entrepreneur Marie Crews. SO much packed into this 20 minutes - mindset tips for first time authors (especially novelists), tying self help lessons & other valuable content into a fiction story, learning to trust yourself and so much more!
Connect with Marie so you don't miss the launch of her novel! https://www.mariecrews.com https://www.facebook.com/marieeurecrews
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“Most impossible goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and going full speed ahead as if they were routine.” -Don Lancaster.
Two things I did recently before applying to grad school and how you can - and should - follow my lead before committing to a big new project.
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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” -Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
The dangers of random opinions in derailing your book writing goals.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: "Talking to Strangers: What we should know about the people we don’t know" by Malcom Gladwell.
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"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." –André Malraux.
Here's this week's writing prompt - a "know thyself" journaling one!
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“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not.” -Steve Jobs.
This week's listener question: “Do you recommend an app or game that will help with writing or brainstorming?”
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
How to avoid reinventing the wheel as an author - tools to draw on.
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“The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.” -John F. Kennedy.
How elite performance habits & mindset apply to us as authors.
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“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.” - Annie Lamott.
Applying the principle of "conditions of satisfaction" to write those chapter drafts that could go on and on forever, holding up the rest of the writing of your book.
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“No amount of hard work can overcome a negative mindset.” -Jill Koenig.
This week's Monday Mindset Tip for authors: One take on the adage "act as if" - especially for those about to publish.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: The Stress Switch: The Truth About Stress and How to Short Circuit It by Dr. Amy Serin.
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“The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.” -Terence McKenna.
Happy writing fellow authors!
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"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." -General Douglas MacArthur.
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/88225-print-book-sales-rose-8-9-in-2021.html#:~:text=Led%20by%20the%20fiction%20categories,85%25%20of%20all%20print%20sales
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle#:~:text=The%20process%20of%20adoption%20over,followed%20by%20%22early%20adopters%22
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“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” -Mark Haddon.
3 reasons why most of us, as authors, are not creating as much content as we could be creating to promote our books and brands.
Blog post mentioned in today's episode - Launch Like An Author: https://christine-ink.com/launch-your-book-like-an-author/
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“Freedom without structure is its own slavery.” ― David Brooks.
Mentioned in today's episode - if you need to chat about your writing habits: https://calendly.com/christine-ink/30min
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“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” -Ken Blanchard.
The habits hack I'm sharing with you today will not only prevent you from ever quitting writing your book, but it might also keep you from quitting the rest of your habits too.
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.” – Norman Vincent Peale.
Why monitoring your mindset is one of your most important habits, as an author and a human being.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/3d0pJru
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“Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.” -Mao Zedong.
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“Action expresses priorities.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
Today's FAQ: Where do I find the time to write my book?
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“Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.” ― Harry S. Truman
A brief but motivational message that, if applied, could get your book done faster!
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“When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.” -Tayari Jones
3 keys to deciding when to lay the truth on the line and when to exercise "creative license."
Interview with attorney Kathryn Goldman from Creative Law Center: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-legal-issues-for-authors-an/id1467760106?i=1000538430822
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“You have as many options as you give yourself.” ― Kasie West
A language geekout that just might change everything for you.
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“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie
Habits, at their core, are all about this _____.
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This week's Sunday Story Time Selection: https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Market-100th-Trusted-Published/dp/0593332032/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1REGX9R86Q45M&keywords=writer%27s+market&qid=1658724620&sprefix=writer%27s+marke%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-1
A message & some inspiration for those of you currently (or planning on) querying.
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“Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.” -James Altucher.
A fun creative writing prompt for your weekend!
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“Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions.”— John Di Lemme.
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“People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind spot.” Bryant McGill.
If you’d like to chat more about the topic raised in this episode, I would suggest you add yourself to my calendar. And pro tip - this is the time to do it, versus September when the rest of the world gets this idea all at the same time.
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“Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.” -John Updike.
Happy #WriterWednesday YDWH authors! A behind the scenes look at a not-so-awesome pattern I've recently spotted in a client manuscripts and a strategy to break it in your own writing.
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“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” -Horace Walpole.
Breaking the tension in books, especially memoirs, in a natural and appropriate way through the use of humor. Practice and mastery strategies.
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“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
3 key pieces of the author mindset to help you finish writing your book.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: Stealing Fire From the Gods: The Complete Guide to Story For Writers & Filmmakers by James Bonnet.
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“At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny.” - Simon Rich.
This weekend's writing prompt to keep those creative juices flowing!
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“Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.” — Tanith Lee.
Taking a break from our usual FAQs Friday for a look at some key story principles in one of TV's hottest shows.
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“When brainstorming encourage wild and crazy ideas. Nonsense often leads to ideas that make perfect sense.” ― Sam Harrison.
3 ways to brainstorm an idea or solution to a problem.
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Special #WriterWednesday interview episode of YDWH today!
Author and fellow book coach Jen Braaksma and I chat about:
The magic of coaching memoirs. Applying empathy to my 3 show pillars: writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits. Jen's upcoming debut YA novel, Evangeline's Heaven (releasing 8/30).
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“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” ― Stephen King.
A simple reason why readers put down books and how to keep it from happening to your book.
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“The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” -Kurt Vonnegut.
Today's topic falls under - “things we intellectually know but don’t always execute on well." When is the best time to be strictest about your habits and why?
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection, a MUST read writing fundamentals book: "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within" by Natalie Goldberg.
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“There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.” -Baron De Montesquieu
A creative assignment for your weekend.
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“I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.” ― Ray Bradbury
Enhancing your people watching technique (without coming off like a stalker).
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“A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” ― Veronica Roth
Memoir writing resources: https://christine-ink.com/why-write-a-memoir/ https://christine-ink.com/book-coaching-2/
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“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” -Chinese proverb.
How can board game instructions make you write a better nonfiction book?
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“...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.” ― Susan Cain.
This week's "Memoir to Movie" tip.
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"I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you’re proactive, you focus on preparing. If you’re reactive, you end up focusing on repairing." ― John C. Maxwell
3 steps to creating a mindset emergency action plan (so you can FINISH writing your book).
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: "Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up." https://amzn.to/3ynYz4O
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“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.” -Marcus Aurelius.
This weekend's writing prompt to keep those creative juices flowing.
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“But there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intracranial firecrackers.” ― John Green.
This week's Friday FAQ is about striking the right balance between creative flow and planning.
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“If you can take your personality and inject it into the message you share, you’ll be one step ahead in the content marketing game.” – Jason Miller.
3 steps to starting your author content vault!
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“An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.” ― Werner Heisenberg.
Today's episode is for nonfiction authors with big "ah ha" ideas, wondering how to fit it into a single book - two other options for you.
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“It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.” ― Roger Ebert.
This week's memoir to movie secret: dialogue scenes.
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“I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.” ― Anne Lamott
The mindset of being a writer 24/7, especially in these times.
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Full article featured today: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worlds-most-famous-nurse-florence-nightingale-180974155/
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“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” ― Terry Pratchett.
This weekend's (and ideally a daily) writing assignment.
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” ― John Green .
FAQ: "How much should I be thinking about incorporating current events into my book?"
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“There’s no fear when you’re having fun.” – Will Thomas.
Top 10 list method for giving yourself writing options without the stress of having to come up with one "perfect" idea.
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“The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.” ― Benjamin Percy
3 in-depth tips for working with an outside professional editor on your book.
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"I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ― Anne Frank.
This week's Memoir to Movie writing secret!
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“To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.” ― Maurice Young.
Why summer is an ideal habit setting time.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: The Power of the Curve http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“Learning a difficult skill takes time. But remember, the harder the skill is to learn, the more fulfilling it is when you reach the finish line.” ― Mark Joseph Aduana
A bigger, more interesting writing exercise than usual for your weekend!
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“Ideas don’t make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.” -Felix Dennis
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The first scene of a movie sets the tone for the rest and in some cases determines whether the rest is even worth watching. The same is true for the opening scene of a book. When writing the story of your life, how can you craft a captivating opening scene?
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“There is an art of reading as well as an art of thinking and an art of writing.” -Benjamin Disraeli.
An inspirational #WriterWednesday message to help you power through your week.
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“The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.” ― Michael Lee.
This week's memoir to movie tip - the anatomy of a scene. A 6 point check-up to see what's not working in a scene.
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin
My memoir: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writing Within" by Natalie Goldberg https://amzn.to/3zziz6L
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This weekend's writing prompt is to help you better understand the book you're writing and its value to readers.
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“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.” — Robert Benchley
5 things you DO need to write a book.
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” -M. Scott Peck
3 tips for writing clearer, more intense conflict scenes.
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“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.” - H.L. Mencken
How to translate what you know into a nonfiction book that people actually understand and want to read.
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“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.” ― Brodi Ashton
Writing Your Hero's Journey Into Your Memoir: https://christine-ink.com/writing-your-heros-journey-in-memoir-structure-your-life-story-like-a-novel/
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“I like to remind people that creativity also isn't a spark; it's a slog. Every artist, inventor, designer, writer, or other creative in the world will talk about his work being an iterative experience. He'll start with one idea, shape it, move it, combine it, break it, begin anew, discover something within himself, see a new vision, go at it again, test it, share it, fix it, break it, hone it, hone it, hone it, hone it. This might sound like common sense, but it's not common practice, and that's why so many people are terribly uncreative - they're not willing to do the work required to create something that's beautiful, useful, desirable, celebrated. No masterpiece was shaped or written in a day. It's a long slog to get something right. This knowledge and willingness to iterate is what makes the world's most creative people so creative (and successful).” ― Brendon Burchard
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers - by Tim Ferriss https://amzn.to/3GRV9uG
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“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” —Bill Copeland.
5 questions to help you get the most out of your book writing sessions.
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“If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.” — Shereen El Feki.
FAQs Friday: Which should I write first, big book, or smaller brand products?
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“Step into a scene and let it drip from your fingertips.” - M. J. Bush.
Questions to ask to get clarity on your scenes.
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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” -Carl Jung.
Feeling stuck in chaos and what that has to do with us as authors.
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“The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.” -Maxine Greene.
This week's "memoir to movie secret" - why music isn't just for the movie soundtrack. How to apply music theory as an author.
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“Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ― Leo Tolstoy.
Mindset considerations in the decision to self or traditionally publish your book. And how, either way, publishing is a business decision.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: The War of Art - Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield https://amzn.to/3xb1Pjs
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“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins
Your journaling/writing prompt for the weekend!
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“Questions are creative acts of intelligence.” — Francis Kingdon Ward.
What about you? What questions do you have for me about writing and finishing writing an awesome book? Please send them to me through my website contact page: https://christine-ink.com/contact/
Also, June is Scoliosis awareness month and the 2 year anniversary of my book so I’d love for you to get a copy if you have not done so already. And if you’ve already read it - thank you and please remember to leave a review on Amazon. I appreciate it! http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton.
How busy-ness fuels book writing!
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Here today on Your Daily Writing Habit to talk about the power of a writing a book (or THREE) in building a personal and professional legacy, I have TWO very special guests - a smart, successful, inspirational mother daughter pair who are ALL about making an IMPACT on the world we live in - Laura Herring and Lauren Herring!
You can find all three of Laura & Lauren's respective books, on my Amazon list of client books - check out the other great reads while you're there: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/FMX91S3BC4G2?ref_=wl_share
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“All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.” ― Robert McKee
A handy screenwriting tool to help you organize the flow of your book (and fix problem areas).
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“Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.”- Mary Roach.
3 psychology principles to help your writing, especially character development.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - "Abruptly Alone: A Widow's Memoir" by Jeannie Meach Fredrick https://amzn.to/3PBC0Bm
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“There’s no fear when you’re having fun.” — Will Thomas
Let's work out those creative writing muscles - here's your weekend prompt.
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"Mark Twain had three rules for writing. The first was “Write,” the second was “Write” and the third was “Write." -From a 1917 issue of the newspaper The Inland Printer”
My top 3 writing rules (of many).
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“Memoir isn’t the summary of a life; it’s a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It’s not; it’s a deliberate construction.” ~William Zinsser
Resource mentioned in today's episode: https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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Learn more and connect with today's guest Rachel Gogos: https://thebrandid.com/
Rachel talked about how as an author, your book should be in your local library, here's an expert with tips on how to do that: https://youtu.be/enRw3yAYaUY
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“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.” ― Michael Cunningham.
Today's episode is especially for those of you writing "big vision" books - whether fantastical novels with new and exciting worlds or otherwise. A word of warning... or responsibility as an author.
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“Attention is a limited resource, so pay attention to where you pay attention.” -Howard Rheingold.
An attention analysis exercise to do right now or the next time you're in front of your computer. And what it has to do with your writing.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: "Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know" by Malcolm Gladwell. https://amzn.to/3NqZsj0
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“A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.” — Sigmund Freud.
Keep those creative sparks firing with your creative writing prompt for the weekend!
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“Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.” -Michael J. Gelb.
This week's Friday FAQ!
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“To be a writer, you have to write. Often. With genuine desire. From the heart. Write a little every day if you can. A little soon becomes a lot. Write what moves you, not what appears to be currently in fashion.” -Chris d’Lacey
Why so many people are hesitant to attempt writing a book.
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“Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something — anything — as a first draft…Until it exists, writing has not really begun.” — John McPhee
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it pertains to your work as an author.
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“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.” -Leo Burnett
This week's "Memoir to Movie" Secret!
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“Change the problem by changing your mind.” — Ken MacLeod.
This week's Mindset Monday tip - changing your mind: productive or procrastination? How to know the difference.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: No Fear Allowed: A Story of Guts, Perseverance & Making an Impact by Laura Herring https://amzn.to/3y6X6RY
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“You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop—H2O. The reader will get it.” —George Singleton.
Keep those creative sparks firing, here's this weekend's writing prompt to give you a break from your work in progress manuscript!
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“Actually talk to your customers. Use the language that they use. Talk about the things they talk about. Never feed salad to a lion.” – Jay Acunzo.
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“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.” ― Margaret Atwood.
3 ways to get excited about your already published book (like you were when you first published it!).
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“I think a book is your calling card, your business card.” — Kevin O'Leary
A special #WriterWednesday episode today aimed at self-employed, entrepreneurial, and/or business owner listeners who are thinking about writing a book as a "better business card." A word of caution...
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“All of my life, I’ve jumped off the cliff and built my wings. It works every single time. It never fails.” - (attributed to) Ray Bradbury.
This week's "Memoir to Movie" secret to write a book that readers can't put down.
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“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ― Natalie Goldberg
This week's Mindset Monday author tip.
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - “Build Your Personal Brand: The Definitive Guide to Soul Based Marketing" by Rachel Gogos. https://amzn.to/3KMkJlv
Special programming note: Contrary to my mention in today's episode, the air date of Rachel's interview on YDWH will not be this Wed. 5/11, it will air at a later date. Thank you for your understanding YDWH listeners!
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard.
This weekend's writing prompt to help strengthen your writing skills!
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“Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.” -Patrick Lencioni
Marketing and selling your books in a down and over saturated market.
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“A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.” -Mitch Albom
Why write a memoir - especially if you're not older, writing about the totality of your life, or you're not a celebrity? What's the point?
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“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” -Leonard Cohen
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and my interpretation. About those problem areas of your manuscript...
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“You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.” -'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin.
How to kill off a side character convincingly and in a way that your readers care.
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“To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.” -Marie Forleo.
3 tips from my life to help you FINISH that book you started.
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This week's Sunday Story Time book - my memoir, The Power of the Curve (finding strength in life's surprises): http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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"A ‘genius’ is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.” -Thomas Edison.
Some author writing prompts to help you acknowledge your accomplishments this week!
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“Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action.” -Simon Sinek
This week's Friday FAQ: How do I know if I'm writing the right book? If I'm not, am I wasting my time?
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“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it’s that they know so many things that just aren’t so.” — attributed to Mark Twain.
3 misconceptions about the role of a ghostwriter, and the ghostwriter/client relationship.
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“Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.” -Samuel Beckett.
Came up with a new thing... I think: Habit Mapping. Here's what I mean...
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"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it." -Albert Einstein.
Today's memoir to movie tip: As a writer, know when to look at your book from 50,000 feet and when to look at it from 5 feet.
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"Life provides ample opportunity to test our mettle. When circumstances call for it, let's give ourselves a break and ask for help." - Gina Greenlee.
Nobody's forcing you to write a book. But here's the thing...
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - "Reclaim the Joy of Motherhood: How I Defeated Postpartum Depression" by Pamela Zimmer. https://amzn.to/3MovjAc
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“Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.”—Charles Bukowski
Your weekend creative writing assignment!
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” -Aristotle
This week's FAQ: HOW do I survive the editing process???
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“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” ― Maya Angelou
A combination mindset, writing fundamentals tip for increasing your nonfiction manuscript word count.
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“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson
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“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It's about words. It's about a man dealing with life.”― J.R. Moehringer
There are no truly new story ideas left (plot or character wise). What opportunities this presents for us as authors!
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"To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality." - John Ruskin.
Establishing a writing habit from the imperfect edges of the target rather than going right for the perfect center.
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Today's featured Sunday Story Time book (again because it's awesome!) - "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within" by Natalie Goldberg. Read this book!!! https://amzn.to/3EqLhHo
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“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
Another weekend writing assignment designed to help you "know thyself" better - so you can better connect with your readers.
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“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.” -Michael Garrett Marino
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“The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” - Tom Fishburne.
3 tips based on my role helping my authors launch their books over the years. Launching a book from the author POV (vs. marketer).
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Let's talk author self sabotage, prosperity, podcasts, science and more!
How to connect with Wei: Look for his new "Untethered and Prosperous" podcast!
About today's #WriterWednesday guest: Wei Houng, in his entrepreneurial journey, has made it his passion, purpose and goal to help people uncover and optimize their unique vehicle of self so that they can Untether from the shackles of Bad Money Stories and Chronic Self-Sabotage. He is an author, podcaster, co-founder of several companies, and creator of The Prosperity Breakthrough System™. For almost 30 years, he has worked with celebrities, industry thought leaders, and thousands of entrepreneurs all over the world to unlock and define their one unique path to a prosperous life. He blends a unique cocktail of modalities that's grounded in science & quantum physics and elevated through spirituality to help his students and clients breakthrough their prosperity blocks so they can Feed their Passions and Fund their Purpose.
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“I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.” - Vera Nazarian.
This week's "Memoir to Movie Secret" - why pacing matters and how to do it through dialogue scenes. AND by the way I'm talking to nonfiction authors today!
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“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish Proverb.
This week's Monday Mindset Tip!
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Today's featured Sunday Story Time Book: "Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting" by Robert McKee. https://amzn.to/3utTMOx
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“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Og Mandino.
Deep thoughts to journal on this weekend to get to know thyself better and connect with thy readers better too.
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“I spent a lot of time before I actually wrote my first book going, "How do you write a book?" The answer is, you just write.” ― Gillian Flynn.
This week's Friday FAQ!
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“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey.
Feeling less than motivated in your book writing process? Here are my 3 tips to turn that around and rediscover the fun in writing your book!
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Today on YDWH #WriterWednesday - Drawing Inspiration From Unexpected Places, Dealing with Rejection & "De Greff Doors." Dana is an award-winning author, Creative Writing instructor, and author of the new book "Words and Wonder: A Guide To Becoming a Creative Writer."
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“The substance of story is the gap that splits open between what a human being expects to happen when he takes an action and what really does happen; the rift between expectation and result, probability and necessity. To build a scene, we constantly break open these breaches in reality.” ― Robert McKee.
Each Tuesday here on Your Daily Writing Habit, I will share a "Memoir to Movie" book writing secret. Here's this week's...
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“I don't count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.” ― Muhammad Ali.
Why my book coaching client is working so hard on pushing through and writing even when it's the absolute last thing she wants to do - and why you should too!
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This week's featured Sunday Story Time book - Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within" by Natalie Goldberg. https://amzn.to/3NUrhkP
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And for my belated April Fool's Day joke - let's pretend that today is April 1st instead of yesterday as your friendly host is apparently incapable of reading a calendar correctly lol.
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” -Pablo Picasso
Mentioned in today's episode: https://diymfa.com/writing/open-doors-in-your-writing http://www.danadegreff.com/
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“People seem to think there’s a magic formula to writing, I just write 1 word at a time.” — Stephen King.
Today’s FAQ: How can I ensure that I’m not writing cliche scenes in my book - or at the very least - that I’m not writing TOO many cliche scenes? How can I avoid that?
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"There's always something to write about. If there's not, then you need to live life more aggressively." - Min Kim.
How much "life stuff" do we need to go through as writers... to be better writers?
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On today's show, author of "The Mindful Millionaire" Leisa Peterson shares her publishing journey from being called a "horrible" writer at one point in her life, to earning a traditional publishing deal with a top publisher, and then how she consciously invests in making the relationship with her publisher a win-win relationship.
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“Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.” ― Jeanette Walls
Found an interesting news story about a client over the weekend + a memoir to movie writing secret I use in my writing!
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“Motivation comes and goes. If you want to do something consistently, then don't pick a level of difficulty that requires great motivation. Make it easy enough and simple enough that you'll do it even when you don't feel very motivated.” -James Clear
How to Set Your Weekly Writing Cave Schedule.
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Source article for today's Sunday Story Time: https://www.pumpitupparty.com/blog/how-did-the-tradition-of-birthdays-begin/#:~:text=Birthdays%20first%20started%20as%20a,%E2%80%9D%20days%2C%20welcomed%20evil%20spirits
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.” ― Emery Allen
Here's your weekend creative writing prompt - straight from Craig's List!
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf
This week's Friday FAQ: "How do I block out the voices of the naysayers in my life, the ones that say my writing will never amount to anything unless it's my "real" job?"
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"The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship." -Robin Sharma.
3 Ways to Get Yourself Out of That Writing Corner (that you've apparently written yourself into...) - 3 strategies to get unstuck!
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An interview with entrepreneur, author, inventor, and advocate Jillian Coburn. Jillian authored: "My Ugly Truth: Life After Abuse." We talk about the true power of a memoir with a message, Jillian's "Mommy Go Bag" - military inspired, mom approved - and other entrepreneurial author adventures to inspire!
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“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” ― Shannon L. Alder.
5 Self Leadership Principles for Authors.
https://amzn.to/3iilmqY -The leadership book mentioned today.
https://www.taproot.com/live-your-core-values-exercise-to-increase-your-success/ -An Exercise to determine core values
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“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” — G.K. Nielson
A Change Model to Implement a New Decision (Like a Daily Writing Habit...)
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A Story About Identity and Finding Your Brand Word as an Author.
This week's Featured Sunday Story Time book: Red, White & Latina - Our American Identity. By Cristina Perez. www.redwhiteandlatina.com
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“When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say."
"Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise."
"What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?"
"You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another."
In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.”
― Patti Smith, referring to an interaction with Sam Shepard.
Here's your "improv" writing assignment for the weekend!
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“The hardest work is to go idle.” -Yiddish proverb
This week's Friday FAQ: What do I do now that my book is done? Take a break, start another one right away… what do other authors do in this “between time”?
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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Listen to this episode as many times as you need, to grab all the journaling questions because these could change the whole course of your book writing project!
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How the lessons, habits & influence-building skills of the acclaimed Go-Giver book series Bob co-authored with John David Mann, can create author success!
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“Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.” -Chris Wooding.
The shaky house theory of character transformation. For fiction AND nonfiction authors (along with my frequent reminder about the extremely thin line between fiction and nonfiction writing because writing is writing is writing).
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“Not all transformations are visible.” ~Anonymous
This week's author mindset tip is about your readers... and what they really want from you.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - Take Control of Your Job Search: 10 Emotions You Must Master to Land the Job by Lauren Herring, CEO of IMPACT Group. https://amzn.to/36flsg6
2 key anxiety strategies for job seekers that can also be translated to being an author.
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“Imagination is the true magic carpet.” - Norman Vincent Peale.
An imagination blasting creative writing assignment for your weekend!
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"I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in." -Diane Von Furstenberg.
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"Prime your environment to make the next action easy." - James Clear.
A quick habits setting checkpoint for you today!
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“There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.” ― Obert Skye
The Power of the Curve: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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"You reflect to review the past, take stock of the present, and build a better future. The learning you acquire from reflecting on your experiences and those of others will depend on your willingness to ask yourself tough questions and to stick around for the uncomfortable answers. Here you must exercise caution. Do not dwell on the past unless you can learn from it. Do not look back to hurt yourself or others. The point is to use the past in ways that are beneficial to you." -P.M. Forni
Breaking apart this quote, especially for memoir authors.
Source of quote: The Thinking Life: How to thrive in the age of distraction https://amzn.to/3IOEQPE
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - "Deacon King Kong" by James McBride: https://amzn.to/3pHfwUm
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“Life is like a boardgame. Advancing forward is the key.” ― Torron-Lee Dewar
A fun weekend writing prompt to take the pressure off for a moment.
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“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -Mother Teresa.
With everything going on in the world, does my book even matter? Especially when it's not about changing the world, or any other big themes like that.
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“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -E. L. Doctorow.
3 writing fundamentals tips to uncomplicate your writing process and write a better book.
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An interview with Fred Koehler:
Key writing fundamentals that EVERY authors should master (based on interviews with hundreds of publishing industry professionals). The push for "under represented voices" in traditional publishing now. Vampires & werewolves are IN once again! Also trending at the other end of the spectrum, in traditional - "normal" stories in these abnormal times. Fred's very own "Jaws" encounter and his advice for not getting eaten by a shark. Plus buried treasures off the Florida coast, sunken boats and MUCH more!
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“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” -Walt Disney.
How to fine tune your daily reading habit - and why it's necessary (disagreeing with the person on Twitter who told me it's a myth).
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“You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.” - Margaret Heffernan
This week's Monday Mindset Tip: The dangers of cognitive blindness in authors.
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The power of the English language, forgotten words, a new one for your arsenal, and the one thing we can control as authors.
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” ― Dr. Seuss.
A creative writing assignment for your weekend.
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“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”― Herman Melville.
3 reasons I went from number one content creation procrastinator ever, to someone who actually ENJOYS creating content around my books and brand!
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“You don't know who you are; you just know what they’ve told you about who you are!” ― Maddy Malhotra.
How I am dual brained... except for one thing and largely attached to a lifelong limiting belief.
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“The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man.” ― Bruce Lee.
What the heck does the quote above have to do with being an author? Find out in today's show.
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“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce.
A story of a recent field trip, climbing on clouds, and what it has to do with being an author.
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The Cloud Climber: https://nvdm.org/exhibitions-and-events/permanent-exhibitions/cloud-climber/
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“In order to be creative, you have to know how to prepare to be creative.” — Twyla Tharp
Do you feel guilty whenever you're not actually writing your book? This episode is for you.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened By Allie Brosh.
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“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” ― Aldous Huxley.
Your weekend writing prompt.
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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening." --Jeanette Winterson.
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates.
4 reasons why as an author, it would benefit you to have a daily reading habit.
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“Entrepreneurs should always aim to play the long game. Instant gratification cannot build a legacy.” ― Andrena Sawyer.
When launch day doesn't work out - a perspective about your book's long game.
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“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” -Albert Camus
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“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ― Robertson Davies
Mentioned in today's episode: Ep 191: https://youtu.be/8QmDyB_rPog Ep 193: https://youtu.be/M22JfpIj6JI
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz: https://amzn.to/3LtZSVn
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"Honest self-understanding liberates us from our stuck emotions." - C Terry Warner.
This weekend's writing assignment - know thyself... from a different POV though.
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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." – Buddha
Today's FAQ: "Is anyone else having trouble sticking to their writing goals this year???"
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The reader writes the final chapter.” -Junot Diaz
3 literary devices to spice up your writing, especially nonfiction authors.
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“All people are the same; only their habits differ.” -Confucius
3 key daily writing habits.
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“The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you – they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening… there’s nothing like that.” — Marc Maron.
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“I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”- attributed to Albert Einstein.
About authors and intuition.
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How are authors like debaters? A strategy you can use in writing your book.
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“The phoenix must burn to emerge.” - Janet Fitch.
Here's this weekend's writing prompt - for ALL authors, not just memoir ones.
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“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.” ― Steve Maraboli.
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“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin.
How to find that "hook" for your book that you've been looking for.
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“Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the things you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was ‘terrible,’ describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was ‘delightful’; make us say ‘delightful’ when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, ‘Please, will you do my job for me?'” —C.S. Lewis
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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” - attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
Brand new thoughts on where to draw creative inspiration AND storytelling fundamentals, and why it's important.
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“The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.” -Malcolm Gladwell.
3 lessons from a sports "goat" that authors can and SHOULD apply every day!
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection, "The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)" by Seth Godin: https://amzn.to/3AI2E4y
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“The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. Yet still, they began their journeys.” -Mike Dooley.
Your creative writing assignment for the weekend!
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“Never water yourself down just because someone can’t handle you at 100 proof.” -Unknown.
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“Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today.” ― Meagan Spooner.
3 brutally honest productivity hacks to help you write and FINISH writing a great book!
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“But there are men for whom the unattainable has a special attraction. Usually they are not experts: their ambitions and fantasies are strong enough to brush aside the doubts which more cautious men might have. Determination and faith are their strongest weapons. At best such men are regarded as eccentric; at worst, mad.” – Walt Unsworth.
Breaking down this quote point by point for authors.
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“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.” -Bruce Springsteen.
3 keys to simplifying and adding ease to your book marketing efforts.
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“People often think it's weird to get hyped about reading one page or meditating for one minute or making one sales call. But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up. The truth is, a habit must be established before it can be improved. If you can't learn the basic skill of showing up, then you have little hope of mastering the finer details. Instead of trying to engineer a perfect habit from the start, do the easy thing on a more consistent basis. You have to standardize before you can optimize.” -James Clear.
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A template sentence to help you create new habits - including a daily writing habit!
Today's Sunday Story time selection - Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://amzn.to/33CbaWM
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“Sometimes I think I am the unreliable narrator of my own life. Sometimes I think we all are.” ― Alice Feeney.
A creative writing assignment about the unreliable narrator element in writing.
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“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” - Virginia Woolf.
This week's FAQs Friday question - answered.
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“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” -Les Brown.
Prioritizing why you are REALLY writing a book.
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“Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.” -Pawan Mishra
Happy #WriterWednesday! How this quote speaks to our number one job as authors.
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“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” ― Leonardo da Vinci.
If writing a book is an art, then finishing it is a science.
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“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Today's Monday Mindset Tip is about how to end your book editing process - a logistical strategy and how to do it with peace of mind.
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Today's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/3GCoyYS
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It's episode #1000 of Your Daily Writing Habit and today I have SUCH a special treat for my listeners! It's an hour long, value (and entertainment) packed interview with Chris Brogan.
Here's a little bit about Chris: Chris Brogan is the Chief of Staff at Appfire and an executive-level strategist and CEO advisor, working with companies at the 100M+ revenue range. Chris is a sought after keynote speaker and showrunner of The Backpack Show. He is the New York Times bestselling author of nine books and counting. He's working on his tenth.
Check out Chris's "3 words" episode of The Backpack Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ER1rR_s3g&t=67s
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“Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.” — Lawrence Bossidy.
Part One of Two of the big episode 1000 celebration (tomorrow!). What is an author "SWOS" analysis and how can it make you more successful this year?
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“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” -Alexander Graham Bell.
Writing Cave basics - what it is and how to navigate it successfully!
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“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.” -Alan Perils.
There's nothing simple about simplicity, especially when it comes to developing a "simple" book idea.
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“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.
Mentioned in today's episode - my Book Blueprint guide (coupon INKFRIENDS at checkout): https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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“Habit is stronger than reason.” -George Santayana.
Today's Monday Mindset Tip - how to turn habits into routines.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King: https://amzn.to/3qbvCGq
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ― Søren Kierkegaard.
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“I’m obsessed with finishing as a skill. Over the years, I’ve realized that so many of the good things that have come my way are because I was able to finish what I started.” ― Derek Yu.
Today's FAQ: Will my book ever be done???
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“Every first draft is perfect because all the first draft has to do is exist. It’s perfect in its existence. The only way it could be imperfect would be to NOT exist.” -Jane Smiley
“We begin to judge our work too early and think we need to achieve perfection. Inevitably writer’s block will come knocking because we can’t meet those expectations. We need to give ourselves permission to fail so we have the freedom to explore, experiment and improve.” -Lynda R Young.
Reasons not to attempt to edit and write your book at the same time.
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Our guest today: Heather Campbell is a book coach, writer, and reformed perfectionist who helps writers develop tools to overcome their self-doubt, procrastination, and perfectionism so they can create lasting and effective writing habits to complete a novel. She has more than five years of experience working one-on-one with writers. When she's not immersed in fiction, she's running in the fresh mountain air of Colorado or snuggling with her rescue dog, Chase.
Mentioned in today's show:
https://www.janefriedman.com/how-to-overcome-perfectionism-to-achieve-your-writing-goals/
http://www.thewriterremedy.com/
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“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” ― Charles Noble.
3 questions for authors to ponder in 2022.
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"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life." – Amy Poehler.
Today's Mindset Monday story of our Ink Authors end-of-year zoom and a goal for authors this year.
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My annual New Year's message for authors here on Your Daily Writing Habit!
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“New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours.” -Alex Morritt.
Here's your New Year's weekend writing assignment!
Mentioned today, Russell Redenbaugh's book Shift the Narrative: https://www.shiftthenarrative.com/
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“Accountability separates the wishers in life from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions.” — John Di Lemme.
FAQ Friday: What is the most important lesson you’ve learned about self publishing a book?
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“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.” -Nelson Mandela.
3 things working for authors today.
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“10 high performance habits that lead to success” - adapted for authors.
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“It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” -Zig Ziglar
3 things that authors who finish their books, have in common.
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“The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of becoming paralyzed by indecision, terrified that every choice might be the wrong choice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert.
This week's Mindset Monday Tip: Decision Paralysis
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For today's Sunday Story Time, what has become a YDWH annual holiday tradition!
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“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.” -Fred Rogers.
A fun holiday themed writing assignment for your weekend.
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“My best skill was that I was coachable. I was a sponge and aggressive to learn.” — Michael Jordan.
This week's Friday FAQ: "How do you diplomatically encourage a writer whose work, um, "doesn't appear to have it"?"
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“I was once told by a traditional publisher I write and publish more books than they can handle so I became a publisher. ― Kailin Gow.
The case for being a prolific author. With the right processes and fundamentals, quality and quantity are not separate islands.
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“The first draft reveals the art; revision reveals the artist.” ― Michael Lee.
The difference between editing the first half and second half of your book. A message of hope.
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” ― Shunryu Suzuki.
My 3 words for 2022 but first, the meaning of the Zen Buddhism term "shoshin" and what it has to do with us as authors.
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“Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.” - Terrence E. Deal.
This week's Mindset Monday author tips - celebrate your milestones and separate your writing and editing processes.
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Today's Sunday Story Time Selection - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant: https://amzn.to/3FbTzCd
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“Growing up is losing some illusions in order to acquire others.” — Virginia Woolf.
This weekend's writing prompt - let's daydream...
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“There is only one plot—things are not what they seem.” —Jim Thompson.
This week's FAQ: "How do I write a scene in a more interesting way?"
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“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” ― Elbert Hubbard.
Strategies to find actionable strategies to deal with criticism (i.e. bad reviews) of your book.
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“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ― John Lennon.
What this has to do with authors - a choice for the New Year.
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” —J.P. Morgan.
The importance of getting ahead of the January 2nd hectic new year energy - now. And how to do it.
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“When brainstorming encourage wild and crazy ideas. Nonsense often leads to ideas that make perfect sense.” ― Sam Harrison.
This week's author mindset tip is about what to do when your creative brain gets ADD and refuses to cooperate.
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Don't stress - it's this week's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/3lYI1dY
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"We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams." -H.G Wells.
A sci-fi writing prompt to spark your imagination this weekend.
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"Let’s face it, characters are the bedrock of your fiction. Plot is just a series of actions that happen in a sequence, and without someone to either perpetuate or suffer the consequences of those actions, you have no one for your reader to root for, or wish bad things on," — Icy Sedgwick.
Today's Frequently Asked Author Question - character or plot development first?
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“All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.” ― James Clear.
Digging deep into the process of creating a new habit.
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“Once, if you told people you were self-published, they'd look at you like you were a smelly old jobless hobo just come off a dusty boxcar with soupcan shoes and a hat made from a coyote skull.” ― Chuck Wendig.
A 2022 self publishing manifesto.
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“I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.” -Chadwick Boseman.
More about promoting your book outside of social media - episode #948: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-episode-948-promoting-your/id1467760106?i=1000542839731
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“A book’s never gonna be perfect, but then the Romans believed perfection angered the gods.” ~Melvyn Small.
More detail on my 5 step self editing process for authors: https://christine-ink.com/extreme-editing-5-steps-to-a-better-book/
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #16 - FINAL assignment!
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - Shift the Narrative by Russell Redenbaugh: https://www.shiftthenarrative.com/
My memoir (how I shifted MY narrative, found power in the curves: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This weekend's writing assignment is to help you rock your 2022 writing goals!
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"Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten" -Unknown.
Today's FAQs Friday Question: I "think" I’m done writing the rough draft of my book. What are the different ways I can have someone review it and let me know where the problem areas are?
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“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” -Winston Churchill.
Anti-quitting questions and strategies for when you're ready to give up on your book.
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"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation." ― Graham Greene.
The 3 emotional stages of a memoir project.
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“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordan.
Written version of today's episode with infographic: https://christine-ink.com/demystifying-book-writing-obstacles/
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“The process of editing is what I enjoy most - putting the pieces together and making sense out of them.” -Christian Marclay.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details.
Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #15 - structuring your short story.
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Today's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/32HJLlh
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“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” -William Plomer.
This weekend's writing assignment!
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“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.” —Enid Bagnold.
A good singular starting point for marketing your book and when to start doing it.
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“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” -Kristin Armstrong.
A series of gratitude reflection questions for you.
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“When you feel an idea comin’ on, excuse yourself. Pull over to the side of the road. Get lost in the creative flow. Be late. Barge in.” ― Danielle LaPorte.
Creative inspiration, flow.... your book - is looking for you. Are you creating space so it can find you?
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“Traditional marketing talks at people. Content marketing talks with them.” – Doug Kessler.
Breaking out of the echo chamber of your social media network - additional ways to promote your book.
Mentioned today - HARO: https://www.helpareporter.com/
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“In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.” -John Fowles.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #14.
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About being yourself...
This week's Sunday's Story Time: https://www.amazon.com/So-What-Communicate-Matters-Audience/dp/0137158262/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=so+what+book&qid=1637536995&sr=8-1
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"Creativity doesn't wait for that perfect moment. It fashions its own perfect moments out of ordinary ones." -- Bruce Garrabrandt.
Here's your creative writing prompt for the weekend!
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“I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.” - Socrates.
Today's Friday FAQ: "How soon is too soon to quit reading a book that's not holding my attention?"
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“In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.” -Edmund White.
Ancient Egypt and memoirs and your lasting legacy today.
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” ― James Clear.
The Atomic Habits "2 minute rule" as applied to your daily writing habit.
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“Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.” -Hal Elrod.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #13.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Paparazzi-Your-Brand-Story/dp/1935598848/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1636838344&sr=8-1
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“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged and prose-like being.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster.
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“The greatest competitive advantage in the modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.” Shawn Achor.
3 reasons to go "all in" on writing. Hint - send this episode to a high school or college student you know!
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“Words don’t capture, they release.” -Matt Haig.
New thoughts about the real power of sharing your personal story.
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“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” ― Robert Jordan.
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“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” ― Kiran Desai.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #12.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection - A Bum Deal: https://www.amazon.com/Bum-Deal-Unlikely-Hopeless-Humanitarian/dp/1402244711/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+bum+deal&qid=1636164772&sr=8-1
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“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ― Strider Marcus Jones.
5 super simple journaling prompts to jumpstart your creative brain.
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“Out of clutter, find simplicity.” ― Albert Einstein.
How many adjectives, adverbs in your writing are too many?
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“Post something on the internet.” -Gary Vaynerchuk.
The full written version of today's episode: https://christine-ink.com/8-takeaways-from-national-achievers-congress/
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Today, a special "mind snack" for us as authors - an interview with Chris M. King, Founder of Status Flow, author, and Pique-Performance Executive Coach.
The Neurology of Creative Flow How to Renegotiate Your Writing Experience Key Flow State Triggers
More info & Chris AND getb15% off of any one-on-one coaching program if you mention that you found Chris on Your Daily Writing Habit! https://statusflow.net/
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" When you use the creative force from your Core Self and intentionally decide who will show up, the things and behaviors you’ve ‘always had’ can shift instantly... Most of us don’t realize that we’re telling ourselves a lethal story that we believe is gospel when, in fact, we can silence it and create and live a new story." -Todd Herman.
Tackling writer's block with a fun, creative, and slightly weird disassociation solution.
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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." - Maya Angelou.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good.
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Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #11.
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Today's (spooky!) Sunday Story Time selection - "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Stephen-King/dp/1444723251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=on+writing+stephen+king&qid=1635704876&sr=8-1
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"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." -Stephen King.
A spooky sci-fi writing prompt for your Halloween weekend.
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“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” - Mark Victor Hansen.
Answering a listener question: "I feel like lately I've lost my confidence as a writer. How do I get it back?"
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“What has always been at the heart of filmmaking was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film.” – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
3 screenwriting tools you can use to up level your book writing!
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There is a tendency to slather everything with adjectives and adverbs, when what you really want to do is strip it.” — William Blundell.
All the adjectives and adverbs getting in the way of your writing and an editing audit you can (and should) do asap.
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“No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.” ― E.B. White.
Do you hear the inner metronome in your writing? What I mean and how it affects the reading experience. Also - the number one thing readers want when reading your book!
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Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good.
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Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #10.
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Today's Sunday Story Time selection: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Life-Story-Discovering-Autobiography/dp/0874779227/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=your+life+as+story&qid=1635114581&sr=8-2
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“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.” ― Victor Hugo
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“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” – Salman Rushdie.
The case for books over other forms of content.
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"We can reframe our life stories not by the things we expect to happen, but by what we learn from the things that do happen.” -Christine Whitmarsh
Article referenced today: https://smarthustle.com/your-2020-story-of-resilience/#.YWzaMRrMJPY
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“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” ― Rumi.
Pretty sure he was talking about writing a memoir. More on that in today's episode!
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“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.” ― Ray Bradbury.
2 tips to untangle a manuscript mess.
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“There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness. Each of us is the bearer of our own lantern. We find ourselves when we realize our place in an interconnected world. The struggle to pierce the darkness that shrouds us from realizing a state of perceptive awareness is the biggest part of both our individual story and our communal storyline.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #9.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: Sex, Drum, Rock n' roll - by Kenny Aronoff. https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Drums-Rock-Roll-Business/dp/B095J5P27S/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1634507306&sr=8-5
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“No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.” ― John R. Lindensmith.
This weekend's writing assignment!
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“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ― Vincent van Gogh.
This week's Comfort Food Friday episode is a writing assignment for you.
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand.
My interview with Authority Magazine reference in today's episode: https://medium.com/authority-magazine/christine-whitmarsh-second-chapters-how-i-reinvented-myself-in-the-second-chapter-of-my-life-7c3af3b4090c
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More about our guest today, attorney Kathryn Goldman from Creative Law Center - a website library of info & resources! https://creativelawcenter.com/
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“Content Marketing is a commitment, not a campaign.” ~Jon Buscall.
A programming note about tomorrow's episode of YDWH AND how it's a perfect example of today's message - content!
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“Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding.” – Jen Williamson.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #8.
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Today's featured Sunday Story Time book: https://amzn.to/2YyVz7T
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” ― Henry David Thoreau.
This weekend's writing - journaling - assignment. Some questions about your 2021.
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“Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre.” -John Carpenter.
This week's Comfort Food Friday morsel - how do you define comfort TV/movies? Calming or heart pounding?
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“It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.” ~Marquis de Sade.
6 questions to ask to get clarity on your book publishing plan.
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“One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.” ―Jiddu Krishnamurti.
The known and unknown of the book writing process.
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“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” – Napoleon Bonaparte.
3 ways that, as authors, we unnecessarily overcomplicate the book writing process.
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“Good things happen not by managing time but by prioritizing attention.” ― Richie Norton
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #7.
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“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” ― Samuel Johnson.
Celebrating episode number 900 of Your Daily Writing Habit! (Hashtag - surreal.) Today I share with you 3 tips for each of my 3 pillars here on the show - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits. Enjoy and thank you so much to my listeners!!!
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath
This weekend's writing assignment to keep those creative sparks firing!
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“When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.” -M. F. K. Fisher
This week's Comfort Food Friday morsel, applies the idea of comfort food to the characters in your story - character dev work today!
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“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.” -Abba Eban.
An advantage of being an author, especially in challenging times.
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Today's #WriterWednesday quote is a tweet from a members of the Twitter writing community: “I’m lost. Can someone point me in the direction of the hashtag writing community? Because I rarely see anything writing related anymore. Book promos and ads get little engagement including mine. Have pointless question tweets become more popular now? Is anyone out there?” -Barbara Avon
My thoughts in today's episode.
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“It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.” ― Elmore Leonard.
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“In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.” ― Albert Einstein.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #6.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/3lZGvrh
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"I think that science fiction, even the corniest of it, even the most outlandish of it, no matter how badly it's written, has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change." ― Robert A. Heinlein.
A fun, futuristic writing assignment to keep those creative sparks firing this weekend.
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“Unbelievable, that old Biff could have chosen that particular date. It could mean that that point in time inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance. Almost as if it were the junction point for the entire space-time continuum. On the other hand, it could just be an amazing coincidence.” -Doc Brown character in the movie Back to the Future Part II.
For this week's Comfort Food Friday, let's go back... back to the FUTURE!
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“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” ― Charles Dickens, from David Copperfield.
4 memoir writing prompts to help you discover the most compelling angles of your life story to write about.
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A special treat for today's #WriterWednesday episode! My interview with author and brand powerhouse Yvette Bodden. Yvette shares from the heart about the journey of writing her first book, the memoir "A Journey to Becoming the Best-Self" AND previews her upcoming book - a "spicy" relationship-based novel. So many incredible lessons for authors to unpack in this episode - a MUST listen!
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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.” -Truman Capote.
Pulling back the the podcast curtain and revealing what I know about (many of) you, my original goals for this show, and why I sign off the way I do every day.
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“What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.” -Albert Camus.
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let’s do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #5.
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Today's Sunday Story Time selection - "The P.I.L.O.T. Method: The 5 Elemental Truths to Leading Yourself in Life" by Black Hawk helicopter pilot, author, and professional speaker Elizabeth McCormick.
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.” -Maya Angelou.
This weekend's writing assignment is also a tool for your writing toolbox.
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“I wish there was a way to know you're in "the good old days", before you've actually left them.” - Ed Helms as the character Andy Bernard from the TV show the "The Office."
This week's Comfort Food Friday morsel is about hindsight, especially idyllic. AND a tool for your writing mindset toolbox!
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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see.” -James Kerr.
Whom from you past do you wish had left a book behind? How might it have changed your life? A lesson...
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“Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?” -Joseph Heller.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it applies to your work... or life... as an author.
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“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee.
A football season analogy to an important mindset lesson for authors. People telling you to "face reality" are talking about their own.
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“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” ― Robert Jordan
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Let's do some good. Listen to episode #853 (and subsequent Monday episodes) for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #4.
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Today's Sunday Story Time selection - Heaven's Bell by Sherrie Barch (HIGHLY recommend for these times!): https://www.heavensbell.com/
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“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” —Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl
Reflecting on the anniversary of 9/11 with a writing assignment for you about heroism.
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“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” -"The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams
It's Comfort Food Friday here on Your Daily Writing Habit! Listen for this week's morsel to remind ourselves everything's going to be okay.
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“A coach is someone that sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness!” — Michael Jordan.
3 lessons I learned while writing my memoir "The Power of the Curve."
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“The diary is the only form of writing that encourages total freedom of expression. Because of its very private nature, it has remained immune to any formal rules of content, structure, or style. As a result the diary can come closest to reproducing how people really think and how consciousness evolves.” -Tristine Rainer.
A fun and constructive author benefit of keeping a journal.
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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.” ― Stephen King.
A writing fundamentals day! How to determine how much to describe in your writing.
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Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Listen to episode #853 for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #3.
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An excerpt from my memoir "The Power of the Curve" followed by a more in-depth lesson than usual about how to apply it to deal with YOUR life curves.
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“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.” ― Washington Irving.
A "comfort food" writing assignment to add some peace and daydreaming to your weekend. Enjoy!
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“I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.” -Cassandra Peterson.
A NEW feature day here on Your Daily Writing Habit - Comfort Food Fridays! Have a listen and let me know what you think in my Ink Authors group on Facebook - link below.
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“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” -Charles Buxton.
It never fails. The moment you commit to writing a book, the universe throws ALL the life things at you to make sure you are absolutely too busy to write your book. Here's why that's a good thing...
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“But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.” -Paul Thomas Anderson.
What I noticed in filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's (Boogie Nights, Magnolia) first feature film and what it has to do with your writing.
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“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” - Albert Einstein
How the hyperactive, constantly creative author brain is like a puppy, especially when we're trying to be productive. And what to do about it.
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"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” -Jodi Picoult
Let's write a book together! Let’s document this chapter in history. Listen to episode #853 for more details. Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #2.
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This week's Sunday Story Time selection (a MUST read writing fundamentals book!): https://amzn.to/3jos3cs
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“We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.” -Byron Katie
This weekend's writing assignment has a big group intention!
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“We want to be just wonky enough to be interesting, but not so wonky that our life is unbearable or painful.” ― Robin Ince
Source article for today's Friday Facts: https://interestingliterature.com/2016/09/22-interesting-facts-about-writing/
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“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
“Always do things right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain
“I’d rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.” – Joss Whedon
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The hardest book to write is....
Source article: https://www.creativindie.com/some-awesome-quotes-for-authors-that-will-make-people-like-you-more/
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“I have seen so many extraordinary things, nothing seems extraordinary any more” ― Lewis Carroll.
The secret to going above and beyond in life, especially during extraordinary times. (PS: Writing a book is going above and beyond!)
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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” ― Henry Ford
Let's write a book together! (Go back and listen to episode #853 for more details.) Today - Pandemic Stories assignment #1.
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Today's Sunday Story Time featured book: https://amzn.to/3gnhrJ1
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A fun (and maybe funny) writing assignment for your weekend!
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Today's Friday Fact, a grammar geek out - crutch words.
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How sharing your story can help others currently suffering with problems you've overcome (or are overcoming). And a reminder about what we're doing on upcoming Monday episodes here on Your Daily Writing Habit.
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Mentioned in today's episode: https://insights.bookbub.com/inspiring-words-authors-difficult-times/
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One big reason why you shouldn't wait until 2022 to start writing your book.
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Kicking off a new project that involves all of YOU, my listeners - a must-listen-to episode today - and tell the other authors! Let's do some good together.
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Featuring John David Mann's excellent writing fundamentals book "How to Write Good... or at least Gooder" on Sunday Story Time once again!
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“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” ― Nelson Mandela.
This weekend's writing assignment will keep your writing muscles toned AND help you make better decisions!
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“How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss.
Source of today's Friday Fact: https://www.njlifehacks.com/procrastination-facts/
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“I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.” - Mary Oliver, poet.
Being invisible sucks. Fortunately, as authors, we have the power to avoid it.
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“If you’re worried about your ideas being stolen, then there’s a good chance your story and characters aren’t good enough. Story ideas are a dime a dozen and no idea should ever be better than the story you build around it. Make sure your story improves upon the idea.” -C. Robert Cargill
3 ways to improve upon existing story ideas (or frameworks) and make them your own.
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“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” – Marvin Minsky
Why you should learn all the things from all the people in all the ways.
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“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” -Brandon Sanderson.
Expanding the definition of "story" for nonfiction authors (as in - story, story, story!!!).
Source Article mentioned today: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/5384/what-are-the-differences-between-allegories-fables-and-parables
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Get your free copy of this week's Sunday Story Time selection: https://johndavidmann.com/2021/03/02/how-to-write-good/
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“Put pen to paper. The people who build their truest, most beautiful lives usually do. It's hard to jump from dreaming to doing. As every architect or designer knows, here is a critical step between vision and reality. Before imagination becomes three-dimensional, it usually needs to become two-dimensional…. Let's look at what we've written and decide that these are not pipe dreams; these are our marching orders. These are the blueprints for our lives.” ― Glennon Doyle.
A journaling prompt for your weekend to keep those writing muscles fired up!
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“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” --Thomas Edison
Scientific (-ish) facts about productivity and why they don't really matter compared to one big thing that DOES matter.
Today's Source Article: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/13-productivity-facts
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“Nothing in this world can torment you as much as your own thoughts.” – Unknown.
3 big reasons why writing is good for your mental health.
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“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” -Wayne Dyer
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” -- Albert Einstein
A strategy to get un-stuck in your writing.
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“It may sound paradoxical, but strength comes from vulnerability. You have to ask the question to get the answer, even though asking the question means you didn't know.” ― Majid Kazmi.
Writing is a mostly solitary pursuit, but finishing, publishing, and promoting your book is a team sport. Here are 3 risks you face in going it alone.
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“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” -Albert Einstein
When the words are absolutely, positively not showing up but you have a writing cave scheduled. Keep the date! Do these things instead. Alternate writing cave strategies.
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Today's Sunday Story Time selection: https://amzn.to/37dh2DV
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“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.” ― Jane Austen.
This weekend's writing assignment to keep those writing muscles toned and creative sparks firing!
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“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.” -Tom Hanks (as Jimmy Dugan in the movie A League of Their Own.)
Today's Friday Fact about writing a book and how to apply it to writing YOUR book!
Source article: https://digital.imprint.co.uk/top-20-book-facts/
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“A curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.” -Robert Henri.
What does it mean to find power in life's curves? My definition and parallels to current events.
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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller.
5 writing lessons that may or may not parallel current events.
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“In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'” -Constance Hale.
Did you know the movies "Boiler Room" and "Wolf of Wall Street" are about the same story (essentially)? How that translates into a lesson about narrator selection.
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"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well." – Brian Reed
Mentioned in today's episode (use coupon code INKFRIENDS at checkout): https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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Today's Sunday Story Time book: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“I try to leave out the parts that people skip.” ~ Elmore Leonard.
A summer fun creative writing prompt to tone your writing muscles this weekend.
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“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” ~ Roger Staubach.
The secret to being an author with staying power.
Today's Friday Fact source article: https://thewritelife.com/post-launch-book-marketing-plan/
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“Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?” -Ernie J Zelinski.
A brief op-ed style piece for creators about the power we have to affect the game of life.
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“When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.” -Thomas Carlyle.
What gifts did you gain in the silence of last year? Are you willing to give them up as it gets noisy again?
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“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.” ―John Irving.
How can you gauge the strength and solidity of your writing habit? Here's how!
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“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden.
How is your summer going fellow authors - habits wise? The writing dangers of summer and how to circumvent those dangers.
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“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This weekend's writing assignment to fire up those creative sparks, give you a break from your work in progress, expand your boundaries, or all of the above.
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“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening in the basement. I don't publish so much of what I write. I just seem to plow it back into the soil of what I write after it, rewriting and rewriting, thinking that somehow it gets better after the fifty-second-time around. I need to learn to abandon my writing. To let go of it. Dispose of it, like tissue.” ― J.R. Tompkins
Reframing failure in the book editing process. A better approach.
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“Things never go the way you expect them to. That's both the joy and frustration in life. I'm finding as I get older that I don't mind, though. It's the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don't see coming.” -Michael Stuhlbarg.
5 writing elements to play with so that your scenes reflect real life.
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“Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience - every reader is a different person.” - William Zinsser.
Revisiting my "laser beam vs. spotlight" theory of your book's target reader. Or... Laser theory 2.0.
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“The language used in telling our personal story affects us. We reflect our mind chatter.” ― Kilroy J. Oldster.
What language do you use to talk about yourself as an author - to yourself and to others? A brief exploration into the importance of language in your success (and happiness) as an author.
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“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of its satisfactions is to come to terms with your life narrative. Another is to work through some of life’s hardest knocks—loss, grief, illness, addiction, disappointment, failure—and to find understanding and solace.” ― William Zinsser
A slightly different slant on the therapeutic benefits of book writing.
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“All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.” -Steven Pinker
This weekend's writing prompt and journaling challenge!
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“The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds.” ― William Zinsser
This week's Friday Fact source article: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38896790
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“Aspiring authors, get this through your head. Cover art serves one purpose, and one purpose only, to get potential customers interested long enough to pick up the book to read the back cover blurb. In the internet age that means the thumbnail image needs to be interesting enough to click on. That’s what covers are for.” ― Larry Correia.
Why is finding a great book cover design such a challenge? Here's my take on the book cover design conundrum - from the author side of the table (of course).
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“You've got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em, Know when to walk away, And know when to run.” -Kenny Rogers.
What does a famous Kenny Rogers song have to do (at all) with writing a book? Surprisingly - a lot!
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"Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams." -Donovan Bailey
A bit of a reality check in today's episode, about what it actually takes to write and finish writing a great book.
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"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama." -Edward Bond
When a temporary life emergency becomes a permanent mindset - and your book project suffers.
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“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” —Alan Kay.
Here's the machine you can thank for today's rather interesting and challenging writing prompt: https://boredhumans.com/writing_prompts.php
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“We see a single mother refilling snow globes with Christmas juice. She is widow. Her husband died in every war.” -That quote comes from the result of an experiment wherein writer and comedian Keaton Patti fed an A.I. program 1000 hours of Hallmark Christmas movies. He then programmed it to write a couple Hallmark movie scripts of its own.
Source article of today's Friday Fact: https://thehustle.co/06112021-ai-writing/
Have a good laugh at the AI written Hallmark Christmas movie: https://geektyrant.com/news/an-ai-program-was-fed-1000-hours-of-hallmark-christmas-movies-and-then-it-wrote-a-insane-script#:~:text=Writer%20and%20comedian%20%40KeatonPatti%20recently,movie%20scripts%20of%20its%20own
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“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” ― Pablo Picasso
Declare your independence from procrastination with these 4 author productivity hacks.
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“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”― Annie Dillard.
A writer walks into the DMV... and eavesdrops literally on every conversation (of course). Fortunately I overheard one that reinforces two important author lessons!
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“Rabbit holes are my specialty. I live and breathe in them.” ― Author Kara McDowell.
When life advice doesn't translate into writing advice.
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“An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.” -Mark Twain.
A question I get quite a bit from new nonfiction authors - "Why will anyone trust what I have to say about subject XYZ if I don't have degrees ABC after my name?" My answer...
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A book excerpt about something that needs to be a part of your book development process (especially if you're a first time author) AND a learning question for your work.
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“Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.” -Pierce Brosnan.
Authors - here's your creative writing prompt for this weekend!
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“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso
Straying from "Friday Fact Day" for something different this week.
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“Invisible threads are the strongest ties.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
For episode 800 of Your Daily Writing Habit (whaaaaa????), one of my most popular topics. I know this because you've told me so. Thank you YDWH listeners!!!
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“Flow is an optimal state in which you feel totally engaged in an activity... In a state of flow, you're neither bored nor anxious, and you don't question your own adequacy. Hours pass without your noticing.” -Susan Cain
What is flow and how can we achieve it as authors? My personal experiences, tips, and questions for you to ponder.
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“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ― E.L. Doctorow
Something I'm seeing in my editorial analysis of nonfiction manuscripts and my solution.
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“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.” -Anne Fadiman, author
A disturbingly simple revelation about how to write a book that a reader cannot put down.
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An excerpt from one of my favorite recent reads AND applying it to your mindset as an author.
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"Anytime you think you've written your best work, your career is over." -W. Michael Gear
3 journaling questions to help you get out of your own way and get on with the business of being a successful author!
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"Stories represent life. Stories reflect our existence. They open doors to the mind. They send you to places you can only imagine." -W. Michael Gear.
Source of this week's Friday Facts: https://comfyliving.net/reading-statistics/
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“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.” -Kenneth Blanchard.
4 things you don't need to start writing a book, and 1 thing you do need.
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Here this week's #Writer Wednesday quote from Bella Mahaya Carter: “When you’re out there promoting your book, you’ll have to ask for all sorts of things. This might feel hard. You may make up stories, such as I don’t want to “bother” people or be a nuisance. You may feel as if you have no right to ask for what you want. You may even feel, deep down, as if there’s something wrong with asking.”
Listen to today's episode to find out how you can apply it to your writing!
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” —Anton Chekhov.
One of my ghostwriting secrets to help YOUR writing!
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“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” ― Brandon Sanderson.
3 of the best fiction writing tools available to nonfiction book writers to get their readers' attention.
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Important brand tip for authors today.
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Today's Quote: “No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
This weekend's writing prompt - fitting with the launch of Tesla's "plaid" model this week: “I was excited when the rental clerk offered to upgrade me to a Tesla. But I was also concerned. I had a long drive ahead of me across the desert and I was worried about finding a charging station. No problem, the clerk reassured me, this is a special superior long range model. I remembered his words vividly halfway to Joshua Tree when, with all the fanfare of a computer crashing, the Tesla went dead in the middle of the road. That’s when it suddenly occurred to me - rental companies don’t actually RENT Teslas. I stepped out of the car into the blazing sun to investigate what was actually under the hood of my mystery rental."
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“There will never be a perfect time to do something that stretches you. That’s true whether you are starting a business, having a child, changing careers, or wrestling with any number of challenges. That’s not a license to be reckless and never think things through, but at some point you have to embrace the uncertainty because it is the only path forward. If you were ready for it, it wouldn't be growth.” - James Clear.
Source of today's Friday Fact: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/11/career-lab-habits
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“What is imagination for if not to enable you to peep at life through other people's eyes?” ― L.M. Montgomery.
Feeling creatively scattered or block? Something for everyone in today's episode!
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“If you know your archetypes - and not just yours, if you know how to perceive the world in archetypes, through archetypes - everything changes. Everything. Because you have two things: you can see through one eye which is impersonal, and through the other, which is personal. That's the way the game is written down here.” -Caroline Myss.
Need some book brainstorming help (fiction and nonfiction)? Today's #WriterWednesday episode is especially for you!
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“No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.” -William Osler.
A surprising way to grow your "author self" - through activities that have absolutely nothing to do with writing.
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“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” ― Brene Brown.
Sharing without sharing (personal details) on social media - using the "HOP" acronym.
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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.” ― Horace Walpole.
Your writing assignment this weekend AND new author observer mission to benefit your book writing.
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"Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today." --Robert McKee.
There's a certain social media posting rule I've been preaching for years. Listen today as I toss it right out the window.
Source of today's Friday Fact: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/775964/top-10-facts-talking-national-conversations-week
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“You can’t correct what you aren’t willing to confront.” -Unknown.
Nuking manuscript elephants head on.
Nuke the Elephant book: http://www.nuketheelephant.com/
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“Concentration in the job keeps quality in the work.”- Amit Kalantri.
The myth of "one quick thing" (or its sister "one quick question") and the real cost to your writing.
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“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” —Andrew Carnegie.
It's our 2021 midyear goals wrap up! 3 questions to help you see where you are and what adjustments you need to make between now and year's end.
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“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” ― Søren Kierkegaard.
Today's episode is about authors being chronically misunderstood.
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It's Sunday Story Time on YDWH!
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“A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.” ― William Blake
A hard hitting writing prompt for your weekend with several different ways to attack it... your choice.
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“Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way.“ -Tom Freston, Co-founder of MTV.
Source of today's Friday Fact: https://scribemedia.com/wrote-book-make-money/
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“When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes cursory reading, hurried and distracted thinking, and superficial learning. Even as the Internet grants us easy access to vast amounts of information, it is turning us into shallower thinkers, literally changing the structure of our brain.” -Nicholas Carr
Is being online constantly effectively killing our ability to read and comprehend books? If so, how will that affect authors and the future of publishing? And if we can't READ books, how will we be expected to write them?
"The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr: https://amzn.to/34nSUND
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“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ― Albert Camus
What happens when, despite your best efforts, you can't identify your target audience? An argument in favor of being selfish.
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“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” -Albert Einstein.
How writing is like dating - a lesson about mastery.
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“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.” ― Anthony Hopkins.
The one question to ask yourself that will create reasons to move forward toward your goals, rather than excuses to move backward away from them.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from Brendon Burchard's book "The Motivation Manifesto: 9 Declarations to Claim Your Personal Power" and TWO journaling questions for authors.
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"Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want." ~Kristin Armstrong
Your writing assignment for this weekend is about pre and post pandemic awareness, comparison, and setting goals moving forward.
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"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill." -Charles Swindoll.
Source of today's Friday Fact about attitude: https://www.factgoods.com/blogs/fg/the-surprising-power-of-a-positive-attitude
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“In the end, the journey of a lifetime can lead you to someplace you never thought you’d wind up. Sometimes, it’s a place you didn’t even know existed. I never could have foreseen that my spine would curve, turning against me like an enemy. I could never have known that learning to survive when your body wants to destroy itself isn’t a matter of being strong, or brave—it’s something different. It’s learning to adapt, to be resilient. To change.” ~The Power of the Curve http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
3 ways to find power in life's curves (especially recent ones) - to find a way forward to your new normal.
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“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
A break from the stresses of writing a book and being an author - a reminder of the good parts.
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"Love is at the root at everything, all learning, all relationships, love or the lack of it." -Fred Rogers.
Observations after watching the 2018 documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" about television icon Fred Rogers and what it has to do with us as authors.
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“As authors we have a responsibility to make sure we write what we mean, and mean what we write. We walk the line of awareness between conversational word choices and literary ones. Intentional word selection makes for stronger writing.”
Why am I so passionate about authors being intentional about language? Thoughts on casual vs. written language.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt about "the masses," marketing, and the rise (and need for) weird.
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“I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved. Sometimes women do.” ― Gillian Flynn
An "author observer" journaling assignment for your weekend - be honest!
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“Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.” -Richie Norton
Two takeaways for your writing regarding my recent cross country move.
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“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.” -Donna Tartt
3 questions to help you determine what made your favorite books so great (so you can make YOUR book great).
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“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.” ― W.H. Auden.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it applies to YOUR writing!
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“The truth about a man as much as about a country or an institution is better than legend, myth and falsehood.” ― Aga Khan.
3 self-help memoir ("memoir with a message") structures to play with and make your own.
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“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.” —Enid Bagnold.
5 lessons I've learned from ghostwriting books since 2001 that have also benefits me as an author, and hopefully can benefit you too!
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How can you choose a paradigm of bravery vs. one of fear, as an author? This week's Sunday Story Time (throwback) excerpt tells a story and explores that question!
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"Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer." —Barbara Kingsolver.
This weekend's writing assignment is a mix of author observer awareness about the value of your book AND something to potentially yield marketing copy for you!
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." --Hannah Arendt.
Today's Friday fact is about the human brain, fantasy, and reality and how you can use (the info revealed) to your benefit, especially as a nonfiction author.
Referenced in today's episode: https://exploringyourmind.com/18-interesting-facts-mind/
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"Half my life is an act of revision." —John Irving.
The question (and answer) that can keep you motivated throughout the book writing process and why you should keep it visible in your workspace.
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Today's quote - well you'll just have to listen to the episode for the quote AND the funny thing that happened in Ink Authors as a result of it!
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“Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.” —Charles Bukowski
Feeling creatively blocked? Today I share with you 3 questions and 3 actions to help get you unblocked and writing again.
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“Suspense arises naturally from good writing - it's not a spice to be added separately.” -Leigh Michaels.
As an author, how can you keep your readers turning the pages for more? 3 tactics to create the famous infomercial "but wait there's more" effect in your book.
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A "best of" Sunday Story Time episode today, featuring an excerpt from Kim Fiske's book on uncovering and eliminating limiting "monster" beliefs and chatter - "The Monster Under the Bed: Uncovering the Lie That Drives You."
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“To say that a writer’s hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement – it’s like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writers build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.” ~David Gerrold
This weekend's creative writing assignment is for your four-legged friend and if you don't have one, no worries - that's an assignment too!
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“Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different.” -Sushmita Sen
Today's Friday Fact about recent publishing data and my thoughts on examining any publishing biases you might be carrying with you.
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.janefriedman.com/how-the-pandemic-is-affecting-book-publishing/
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"There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast." -Brian Koslow
3 big reasons to write a book BEFORE you launch your business, product, start up, or idea.
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"If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative." -- Elmore Leonard.
Author vs. Grammar Professor - #WriterWednesday thoughts.
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“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler.
The (quite candid) story behind my very first book and important lessons for you as an author about "writing for you" and "writing for other people to read."
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” ― Jim Morrison.
An exercise you can do to prove that yes, there ARE people waiting to read your future book.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, two brief excerpts from one of my favorite books on the craft of memoir writing, and one takeaway for YOUR writing.
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"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.” ― Joss Whedon
This weekend's creative writing assignment! Hint... grab a favorite novel off your bookshelf for this one.
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“Anything you do on the Internet, I want you to be able to do on MySpace. That's the goal and ambition.” -Tom Anderson – founder of MySpace about the new social media site.
A Friday Fact about those seemingly innocent social media notifications lighting up your phone - effect on your brain AND your writing (concentration, focus).
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.addictioncenter.com/drugs/social-media-addiction/
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“Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.” — Travis Bradberry.
Two secrets for finishing your book - with 3 action steps for EACH one (I really want you to finish your book!).
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“Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don’t wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.” —Zoe Winters.
The truth about shortcuts.
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“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.” -Orson Welles
Some literary tools for keeping the reader on the edge of their seat... or at the very least, not boring them.
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“Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue.” -Helen Dunmore
A Memoir Monday tip about those life stories you'd rather forget.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, a lesson on clever versions of exposition and a fun writing study - watching movies!
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“Every time I start a novel, I feel I’ve never written one before.” -Jonathan Franzen
A creative writing prompt for your weekend - Mad Libs style!
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“Stories are our primary tools of learning and teaching, the repositories of our lore and legends. They bring order into our confusing world. Think about how many times a day you use stories to pass along data, insights, memories or common-sense advice.” – Edward Miller
This week's Friday Fact is about sensory writing AND how to apply it to your writing!
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.story2.com/blog/8-facts-about-the-neuroscience-of-storytelling#:~:text=%208%20Facts%20About%20The%20Neuroscience%20Of%20Storytelling,Hollywood%20movies%20follow%20essentially%20the%20same...%20More%20
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“Ageing is just another word for living." - Cindy Joseph
Reasons, benefits and impact of writing a book by age and phase of life.
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"The creator creates by creating; not by thinking or trying or working or anything else... simply create something out of nothing."
A brief #WriterWednesday riff on over preparing to write your book -getting stuck in over thinking.
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"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time." -Leo Tolstoy
A brief but hopefully inspirational message about time and passion pursuits.
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"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." -Booker T. Washington
The value of accountability, camaraderie, and everything else you get from working with other authors!
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"I laughed, I cried and in the end I appreciate and embrace my mistakes, my pain, my joy and my successes as uniquely mine and yet all too human...."
It's Sunday Story Time with a twist this week, keyword: impact. Listen and find out!
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“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change." --Brene Brown from her Ted Talk.
This weekend's writing assignment encourages you to dream BIG about your career as an author!
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“While we can't control the feelings and thoughts that pop into our heads, we can control what we do with them.” -Nir Eyal.
Distracted while trying to write? Let's talk about why that really is (vs. why you think it is) and what you can do about it.
Article referenced in today's episode: https://www.nirandfar.com/internal-triggers/
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"The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others." -Erik Erikson
How being yourself in your real life conversations can help draw people to your book and brand.
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“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it, hurry to publish it. It's definitely possible to write a book in a month, leave it unedited, and watch it go off into the world and be declared a masterpiece. It happens every fifty years or so. For the rest of us, the single greatest ally we have is time." -Charles Finch
Finding the joys in editing starts when you stop comparing it to writing.
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“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ― Sylvia Plath.
3 keys to writing success I've learned in my nearly 20 year professional writing career.
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“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.” -Jim Morrison
Exploring an underused word and questions to apply it to your writing.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from a memoir by a recent guest here on the show: "Little Sister" by Patricia Walsh Chadwick. And as always, the excerpt is followed by a learning question to help YOUR writing!
Listen to my interview with Patricia: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/your-daily-writing-habit-writerwednesday-st-patricks/id1467760106?i=1000513406012
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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Aristotle.
An introspective writing assignment for your weekend that will benefit you AND your readers.
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"You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.” - Margaret Atwood.
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A Friday Fact about the prevalence of storytelling AND how nonfiction authors can apply the info when structuring their books.
Referenced on today's show:
https://enigma.swiss/en/blog/five-facts-storytelling/
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“Memoir is about handing over your life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.” ― Jeanette Walls.
3 reasons why it might be time to ask for help writing or finishing writing your book.
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“The trouble is you think you have time.” Buddha.
An inspiring author success story about the personal, legacy driven, time sensitive 'why' that drove her to the book writing finish line!
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“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” -Neil Gaiman.
An author success story about strategies to get you to the book writing finish line!
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“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” -Mike Murdock.
Making the distinction between a habit vs. a routine and sharing an author story about a successful writing routine.
Interview referenced in today's episode: https://youtu.be/1ZKVJSoiZi4
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Today's featured Sunday Story Time book: 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor by Dr. Karen Gedney, MD. https://amzn.to/2QFupYw
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“Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.” -Rene Russo.
A fiction writing prompt to fire up your creative mental sparks this weekend!
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“If you procrastinate when faced with a big difficult problem… break the problem into parts, and handle one part at a time.” – Robert Collier.
Article referenced in today's Friday Facts about Procrastination: https://edwardsrailcar.com/motivation/10-facts-about-procrastination/
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“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” -Confucius.
Some thoughts on going for great, an Olympian mindset, and why it matters.
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"Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." – William Faulkner.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it applies to YOU as an author.
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“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." --Kurt Vonnegut.
Today's episode is especially for my fellow creative professionals AND those who hire creatives!
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln.
Yet another angle on why taking the time to develop your book is SO important - not just for your own writing process, but for your editor and readers as well!
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For this week's Sunday Story Time episode, I read an excerpt from my memoir "The Power of the Curve" that reveals a time in my career where I had absolutely no idea what I was doing - but figured out something productive to do anyway. And how that thing STILL works for me today and can for you as an author as well!
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“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” —Keri Russell.
Authors - your creative writing assignment this weekend is designed to help you better understand the TRUE power you have to impact your readers, and how much of that power comes from your own life struggles and choices.
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“Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit." ― Linda F. Radke.
A 2020 stat about eBooks and I apply it to the publishing of YOUR book.
Source of today's Friday Facts: https://www.authorbridgemedia.com/Top-7-Book-Predictions-2021.html
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“Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.” -Bob Seger.
An "amazing" anti-cliche challenge to help fine tune your writing radar!
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Such a treat today YDWH fans! My incredible interview with Patricia Chadwick, author of the memoir "Little Sister" - one of my favorite books in recent years. Her life story will amaze and inspire you, and the amount of book writing, memoir, and marketing lessons we managed to squeeze in, will make today's extended episode of the show, extremely actionable for YOUR writing!
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“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” ― Ernest Hemingway.
3 things I've found while acting as Developmental Editor for my Book Coaching clients, that yank readers (and editors!) right out of the experience of reading your otherwise incredible book. In other words - 3 things for your editing list, take note!
Mentioned Today: https://christine-ink.com/book-coaching-2/
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“I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
How your readers' natural biases play into book reviews - positive and negative. Also, help me celebrate Episode #700 of Your Daily Writing Habit! (Thank you to my listeners.)
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For this week's Sunday Story Time episode, an excerpt from a book I'm currently reading called "Stories That Stick" by Kindra Hall, where the author introduces a "founder's story" in business, and why it makes her a "brand loyalist." Then, following the excerpt I share how to apply this concept as an author to help you sell more books!
Today's featured Sunday Story Time Book: https://amzn.to/38V3BtJ
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“Good marketers see consumers as complete human beings with all the dimensions real people have.” — Jonah Sachs.
A creative journaling assignment to help you start more conversations with your readers so they'll buy your book!
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“Seek clarity. Generate energy. Raise necessity. Increase productivity. Develop Influence. Demonstrate Courage. These are the six habits that you need to adopt if you are to reach high performance in any situation.” ― Brendon Burchard.
How to turn courage into a high performance habit, rather than seeing it as an obstacle in the book writing process.
The article mentioned in today's episode: https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-6-high-performance-habits-only-the-most-extrao.html
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“My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me.” ― Celeste Cooper.
4 questions to help you find the intersection of story and message in your "self help memoir" (i.e. memoir with a message). And a bonus thought about what qualifies as a "story."
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"If Moses were alive today he’d come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments and spend the next five years trying to get them published." - Anonymous.
My interpretation of this week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it applies to authors making the traditional vs. self publishing decision.
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“Anything that just costs money is cheap.” ― John Steinbeck.
The true value of a thing is never in its sticker price or factual features. Today - the true value of a book.
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“A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.” -Isabel Allende.
There is only a fine line, writing wise, between fiction and nonfiction. Today, I give you 10 character development questions you can use to develop yourself and the other people starring in your memoir.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from the memoir "Lit: Embracing Your Darkness to Find Your Light" by Mabel Rodriguez, followed as always by a learning question to apply to YOUR writing!
Get your copy of Mabel's memoir: https://amzn.to/3qn129G
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“The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.” ― Eric Micha'el Leventhal.
Are you ready for this weekend's creative writing assignment? Let's go!
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“Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!” ~Owens Lee Pomeroy.
In today's "writing fundamentals" episode - something to look for while editing your manuscript.
Referred to in today's episode: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/10-interesting-english-facts-guest/
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"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." – Theodore Roosevelt
What do you do after missing your target word count for several days (or more) in a row? 6 of my go-to strategies, revealed in today's episode!
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"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right!" -Henry Ford.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how you can apply it to your writing.
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“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” ― Toni Morrison.
The effect of memoirs on labels placed on you and how you can turn the learnings from labels into a gift for your readers.
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“It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line.” -Erma Bombeck.
Why is setting and maintaining habits so hard? Breaking it down in the context of the book writing and publishing process and some thoughts on how to fight through to your writing goals!
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from "On Writing" by Stephen King, addressing writing education. And as usual, my thoughts and a question for you to ponder!
This week's featured book: https://amzn.to/3aDCCUp
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“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” —Henry Ford.
This weekend's writing assignment is a journaling one, addressing your mindset habits.
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“Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.” -William Safire.
Interesting fact about the mental effect of cliches on a reader's mind!
Infographic discussed today: http://www.bestinfographics.co/amazing-facts-about-writing-and-the-brain-infographic/
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“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.” ― C. JoyBell C.
Do people REALLY care about the crazy thoughts in your head (because you're a writer)? Yes. Today I'll share 5 reasons why.
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“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how you can apply it to your writing.
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“Broaden your horizons. They're the only ones you'll ever have, so make the suckers as wide as possible.”― Jennifer Crusie
4 ways to expand your creative horizons - part of adopting a renaissance mindset to serve your writing better.
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“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” -Steve Jobs
We're bombarded by a ton of information every day. How are you protecting your creative brain from the crossfire?
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For today's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from "High Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard about the distinction between "real" and "false" deadlines. Plus an action question for YOUR writing!
Today's book: https://amzn.to/2OY3yWO
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"Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.” -Helen Keller.
How Lyra coach Brit finally got me to stop overthinking by connecting my mind, body, and the aerial hoop. AND a fun writing exercise for you to do the same with your writing!
Check out me doing Lyra while blindfolded: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLKqEr0haFx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
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“Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.” ― William Zinsser.
For this week's "Friday Fact" episode, interesting data about adverb use in books that have withstood the test of time - and so much more! And as always, a learning question so you can apply the lesson to YOUR writing.
Data packed article mentioned in today's episode: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/one-writer-used-statistics-reveal-secrets-what-makes-great-writing-180962515/
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“Authenticity requires a certain measure of vulnerability, transparency and integrity.” -Janet Louise Stevenson.
How to use your unique knowledge and value to rise above the marketing noise and make sure your readers know about your book.
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury.
Exploring this week's #WriterWednesday quote and how it applies to YOUR writing!
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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” — Frank Herbert.
How to connect the dots between book and brand with examples and action questions for you to apply.
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"Build a discipline around a rhythm of output. Commit to output no matter the outcome. This is the secret to your success." -Grant Muller.
3 reasons why as authors we should be sharing WAY more content (in a good, organic, human way) to attract readers to our books.
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How does storytelling capture attention and influence others? In today's Sunday Story Time excerpt you will learn how it does AND an Author Observer exercise to help you utilize these lessons in your own writing!
Today's featured book - "Stories That Stick" by Kindra Hall: https://amzn.to/3tYshKI
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"The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories." -Stephen Chbosky.
Keep those creative sparks firing and writing muscles in shape with this weekend's creative writing assignment!
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“Attention is the single most important asset.” -Gary Vaynerchuk.
Whether you're a traditionally or self-published author, creating content to attract readers to your book is ultimately YOUR responsibility. A motivational message for authors about content creation.
Mentioned on today's show - my appearance on Chris Brogan's "The Backpack Show" podcast TODAY:
Watch LIVE this Friday 2/12 10am EST: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihdMe-X7bQ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/broganchris/posts/2518805544927347
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"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." -Lou Holtz.
Why the "buck stops" with the author and how this shows up in the publishing process.
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How one word can change the entire meaning of an already misleading sentence.
Discussed on today's show: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/363020
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“Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste.” -Benjamin Franklin.
The biggest risk of prioritizing speed over quality when writing a book.
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“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.” ― Brenda Ueland.
So many people out there are searching for their true talents, gifts, and passions. In today's episode, a fun intersection I came up with recently to help you! (And MINE as an example.)
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An all NEW Sunday Story Time with memoir writing tips from a writing master, William Zinsser. As always, the excerpt is followed by a way you can apply it to your writing.
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“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.” ― Mitch Albom.
Here's your creative writing assignment for the weekend!
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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.
Today's Friday Fact is about the link between surviving a traumatic experience, and creativity.
Mentioned in today's episode: https://www.fastcompany.com/3063626/7-surprising-facts-about-creativity-according-to-science
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“Pascal once wrote a long, drawn-out letter to a friend, then apologized in the postscript that he didn’t have time to write a short one. Like Pascal, screenwriters learn that economy is key, that brevity takes time, that excellence means perseverance.” -Robert McKee.
Great writing requires choices. Decisions must be made about what to keep and what to cut. The better you are at it, the better your book will be. In today's episode - 3 ways to apply brevity to your work.
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"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." --Jack Kerouac.
Stuck in your manuscript? Consider the possibility that you might be (inadvertently) overcomplicating things. More on that in today's episode!
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“The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.” ~ Stephen Fry.
This week's theme - what to do when you're stuck in your manuscript! Today - how writing descriptively can get your manuscript in motion again and tips for doing it.
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“You fail only if you stop writing.” — Ray Bradbury.
The theme of this week's shows is - tips for when you're stuck in your manuscript. Today's tips are for how to spark action and get your book moving forward again.
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A Sunday Storytime throwback to 2019 - and beyond that... to America's Space Race in 1962. And as always, an action question to help YOUR writing!
More about today's featured book: http://www.shiftthenarrative.com/
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“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.” (Multiple attributions including Albert Einstein & H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Are you ready for this weekend's creative writing assignment? It's about dreaming BIG!
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"Social media isn’t a tool that’s just waiting to be used. It has its own goals and it has its own way of pursuing them by using your psychology against you.” -Tristan Harris, former Google designer, "The Social Dilemma."
The better we understand our obstacles, the more successful we can be in overcoming them. Social media, the internet, the "attention economy" - and authors. Why I think we can "win" the battle.
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“The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.”― Terry Pratchett.
Non-football fans, I apologize in advance and I’ll see you back here tomorrow. But I thought it only appropriate, leading up to this year’s big game in a couple weeks AND in this season more than ever when I think we could all use as many diversions as possible - that I recap 4 lessons for authors, that I’ve learned from watching football.
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“Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination.” -Benny Goodman.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and TWO ways you can make it actionable as an author.
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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never see’.” ― James Kerr.
A personal share shedding some light on WHY I'm so passionate about helping people write memoirs.
Mentioned in today's episode, my great grandfather's letter from 1946: https://www.pitco.com/about-us
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“Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there’s an explosion—that’s Plot.” —Leigh Brackett.
A tool for mapping out your book's arc (and why that's important) - for fiction and nonfiction books.
Also mentioned in today's show, my Book Blueprint full development process: https://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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A throwback Sunday Story Time episode from 2019 (which seems like a gazillion years ago now doesn't it lol???). The value of true, lifelong friendship. An excerpt from the book "Living by Los Dichos: Advice from a Mother to a Daughter" by Cristina Perez.
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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh.
Pens at the ready authors, it's this weekend's creative writing assignment!
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This week's Friday fact, inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien, is about finding a balance between drawing from past author wisdom and tapping into your own.
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“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” -M. Scott Peck.
An important lesson I learned early in my lightning quick nursing career that I've translated for authors.
All 3 of my lessons from nursing for authors: https://christine-ink.com/3-nursing-lessons-for-authors/
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ― Robert Frost.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote and how to apply it to your writing.
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“Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be confused. Be tired. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.” ― William Zinsser.
3 tips to strengthen your nonfiction storytelling skills, especially for memoir authors!
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“When brainstorming encourage wild and crazy ideas. Nonsense often leads to ideas that make perfect sense.” ― Sam Harrison.
3 brainstorming strategies to help get problems and blocks out of your head and out into the open where they're easier to see and solve.
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Some valuable memoir writing lessons in today's Sunday Story Time and, some ways I can help you write your book that you might not be aware of.
Check out my Writers Club Live group program - affordable access to teaching, accountability, and coaching by me: https://christine-ink.com/wcl/
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Today's book - Writing About Your Life by William Zinsser: https://amzn.to/2KrHjqm
“To me, Writing is Fun. It doesn’t matter what you’re writing, as long as you can tell a story.” ― Stan Lee.
Keep flexing those writing muscles! Here's this weekend's super fun creative writing assignment.
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“Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.” ― James Clear, Atomic Habits.
Today's Friday Fun Fact for authors about your writing space (and Victor Hugo's) and how to apply it.
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“As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson.
As authors we have the power (and permission) to create something from nothing. So what's stopping you?
Some potential reasons & resources:
Missing a plan of action? https://christine-ink.com/writing-grit-a-game-plan/
Procrastination? https://christine-ink.com/declare-your-independence-from-procrastination/
Afraid nobody cares about your ideas? https://christine-ink.com/author-faq-does-anyone-actually-want-to-read-whats-in-my-head/
Worried about the old self-publishing stigma? https://christine-ink.com/permission-to-publish/
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“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.” ― Salvador Dali.
This week's #WriterWednesday quote for authors and how to apply it - 3 ways to be valuable to others as an author.
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“One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.” -Robert Kiyosaki
Save yourself time by starting with a blank white page as rarely as possible. How to find footsteps to follow and why it's important.
Writers Club Live (mentioned in today's episode): https://christine-ink.com/wcl/
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“Commitment is the ignitor of momentum.” – Peg Wood.
How to maintain an energetic connection between you and your book project and why it's so important.
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, a new, relevant excerpt from the book "Red, White and Latina: Our American Identity" by 3 time Emmy winner Judge Cristina Perez. Following the excerpt, stay tuned for a personal observation from me that is also a prelude to my #WriterWednesday episode this week.
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“Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.” – Ray Charles.
Why are songs so powerful? Exploring the answer and how to bring that emotional, sensory experience to your book writing.
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"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” – Dr. Seuss.
It's "Friday Facts" day and today the focus is on print books. Interesting stats and how YOU can apply it to your book writing!
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“You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.” –C.S. Lewis
A sneak peek into some of the questions I ask new book writing clients at the start of each project. Most importantly, I chose questions that I think will be helpful for your book writing!
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“I only write when I’m inspired, so I see to it that I’m inspired every morning at nine o’clock.” ~ Peter De Vries.
Rolling out a NEW Writer Wednesday format for 2021. How can the quote above be actionable in YOUR writing? Let's find out!
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“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” --Japanese Proverb
"You gotta roll, roll, roll with the punches to get to what's real." - Van Halen.
What does that mean and how does it apply to authors? (And why is this maybe my fight song for 2021??)
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“Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.” -Henry Van Dyke
This week's Mindset Monday message: Do it messy. I'll explain what I mean and how to do it!
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from "Shift the Narrative" by Russell Redenbaugh, where he shares why it took him so long to finally share his incredible life story with the world. And as always, a learning question you can apply to YOUR writing!
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"Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it." -Judy Blume
Here's this Saturday's creative writing assignment - have fun!
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"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." -Oprah Winfrey.
If you think about it, social media was pretty much invented for authors. My reasons why AND why we need to be extra diligent about our online time.
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“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” -Parker Palmer.
Throwing back to one of my first messages to all of you in 2020 and if it has changed since then... "The Year of Writing for You?"
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"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton.
3 questions to help you zoom out and see your author brand, fire up your purpose, and potential to truly impact readers!
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“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”― Simon Sinek.
3 questions to help kickstart your manuscript in progress moving into 2021.
Info about Writers Club Live and sign up for January: https://christine-ink.com/wcl/
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“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” ― William Shakespeare.
3 questions to help you reflect on your writing WINS of 2020 (yes, you had some, trust me!).
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Yet another YDWH tradition, this one even more important this year. A reading of "The Station" by Robert Hastings with an important message about how it applies to us as authors.
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“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” ― Audrey Hepburn.
Forget the gentle goals and resolution reruns - let's write a mission for 2021 that kicks butt! A high octane writing assignment for the last Saturday of 2020.
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“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” ―Muhammad Ali.
A reading of an iconic letter to the editor from 1897 - a Your Daily Writing Habit holiday tradition.
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“People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.” – Stephen King.
12 things that every author needs to feel like and give the appearance of being an actual author.
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“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” ― Joseph Campbell
5 lessons from 2020, courtesy of the authors in my Writers Club Live program.
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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -J. R. R. Tolkien.
Finding the gifts of 2020 amongst the turbulence, including a GREAT takeaway from one of my Writers Club Live members.
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“Gore Vidal, in his own memoir Palimpsest, writes that “a memoir is how one remembers one’s own life, while an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates, facts double-checked.” It is more about what can be gleaned from a section of one’s life than about the outcome of the life as a whole. Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happening, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.” -George MacDonald Fraser
A reason to be grateful for 2020 - seeing the true power of a memoir!
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For this week's Sunday Story Time episode, an excerpt from the book "Tools of Titans" about the dangers of a "consensus." And as always, a learning question for you to hopefully help with your writing - and thinking about being an author.
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“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” ― Shannon L. Alder.
This weekend's writing assignment to help build your self awareness and creative writing skills.
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“I love all insider memoirs. It doesn’t matter whether it’s truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialized job they have.” -David Mamet.
My memoir The Power of the Curve: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Curve-Christine-Whitmarsh-ebook/dp/B08B6C4TK9
FAQs Friday Why write a memoir if you are not old and/or famous?
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“The art of communication is the language of leadership” -James Humes.
Call it what you want, thought leader, thought schml-eader - just be one!
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A real treat for today's episode - Top Author PR Strategies for 2021 with publicity expert Jane Tabachnick!
Learn more and connect with Jane at her easy-to-remember website: http://www.simplygoodpress.com/
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"Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits." -Samuel Beckett
5 tips for staying accountable to your writing habit when no one is watching.
Mentioned in episode: http://www.shiftthenarrative.com/
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“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.” -Mark Haddon
3 reasons why as authors (myself included) do not create enough content to connect with our readers who are waiting to hear from us.
Launch like an author: https://christine-ink.com/launch-your-book-like-an-author/
My 10 Day Content Challenge Workbook: https://christine-ink.com/content-challenge/
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For today's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from one of my favorite productivity/brain books - "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr.
Here's a link to get your copy - highly recommended read: https://amzn.to/3gu9hNw
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“Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.” -Jeoffrey Gitomer
For this weekend's writing assignment - how to fictionalize an obstacle you've overcome in life. Perhaps to better understand it, and yourself!
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“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not.” -Octavia Butler
Today's FAQs Friday question: "Why did you decide to create this podcast?"
ALL the links as promised in this info packed episode!!
Looking back at episode #1 of Your Daily Writing Habit: https://youtu.be/59mdP3WGXjw
More about the service I use to produce this podcast, Sound Up Now: https://soundupnow.com/ref/ChristineInk/
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“Actually, the true story of a person’s life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.” ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
When writing your memoir, where do you draw the line between sharing openly... and TMI? In today's episode, I share 4 questions to ask to determine where the line is between valuable vulnerability and TMI.
More about my memoir The Power of the Curve: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
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“Courage is your natural setting. You do not need to become courageous, but rather peel back the layers of self-protective, limiting beliefs that keep you small.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
Today I share a message about limiting beliefs followed by 4 writing elements that I identify and develop before the start of every book ghostwriting project. These are 4 things that you can do before YOUR book writing projects!
My Book Blueprint Guide (use coupon code INKFRIENDS to make it free): http://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
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4 steps to creating an accountability solution for your writing - whether content or a book.
Lots of author accountability offered in my Ink Authors group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
A tribute to the late author and entrepreneurial visionary, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and how his words are relevant to authors.
Today's curation of quotes comes from: https://thepitcher.org/20-awesome-tony-hsieh-quotes-from-delivering-happiness/
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More info about today's Sunday Story time and get your copy of the bestselling new book by Sherrie Barch, Heaven's Bell: http://www.heavensbell.com/
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“I’m just going to write because I cannot help it.” -Charlotte Brontë.
3 self-discovery questions to begin clearing your fears about writing a book so you can get started before the New Year (unlike everyone else waiting until January 2nd!).
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“At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.” -Tennessee Williams.
Today's FAQs Friday listener question: "My overall brand speaks to 3 different, specific target audiences. How do I even begin to create a content strategy?"
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“Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the bestseller list.” -Frank McCourt.
What is a "self-help memoir" and why should it be the memoir style of choice for us "ordinary people" authors?
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“Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.” -Helen Fielding.
My Top 3 Author Productivity Tips of the year. AND - celebrating episode #600 of the show today, thank you to all my listeners!
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“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.” -J.D. Salinger.
My Top 3 Author Mindset Tips of 2020!
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“From the densest, most obscure bit of literary fiction to something that makes your heart race, it all boils down to this: people care about people…. Understand that and you can write anything.” -Conn Iggulden
Today I share my Top 3 Writing Fundamentals Tips of 2020!
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A very special Sunday Story Time this week. It's my mom's 81st birthday AND the 4 year anniversary of my novel Canyon Road. Today I read you an excerpt and, as always, I find a way you can apply it to YOUR writing!
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“If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.” ―Alice Walker.
Super fun writing assignment for this weekend - share your results in Ink Authors, link below!
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Mark Twain had three rules for writing. The first was “Write,” the second was “Write” and the third was “Write. -From a 1917 issue of the newspaper The Inland Printer."
Every author needs their "top rules for writing" - right? Here are my current three...
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"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” -Henry Van Dyke
Happy Thanksgiving 2020 everyone! Here are some things I'm grateful for this year.
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“Creativity is not a talent. It is not a talent, it is a way of operating…What I mean is this: creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have.” —John Cleese.
3 ways to take the core principles of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and apply them to your writing year round. This episode is for ALL authors, whether you've done NaNoWriMo or not.
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“Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.” -Kurt Vonnegut
Revealing what your readers bring to your book (reading experience) and how to honor them.
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"To be a writer, you have to write. Often. With genuine desire. From the heart. Write a little every day if you can. A little soon becomes a lot. Write what moves you, not what appears to be currently in fashion.” -Chris d’Lacey
How does the myth of "natural born talent" potentially harm aspiring authors?
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, a powerful excerpt from one of my favorite writing fundamentals books - "Your Life as Story - Writing the New Autobiography" by Tristine Rainer. And as always, the excerpt is followed by a learning question you can apply to YOUR writing!
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“We All Have Some People In Our Lives Who change us totally either by Coming Or by Leaving. And sometimes the same people do both.” ― Bunny Naidu
As authors, the more we know ourselves as people, how we've evolved (and de-evolved) over the years, the more well-rounded our characters and narratives will be. This weekend's writing assignment is designed to spark that sort of personal awareness and growth!
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“In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
What do you do after missing your word count targets for several days in a row (or more)? For all authors but ESPECIALLY those of you in the thick of NaNoWriMo 2020!
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"Optimists find joy in small things. They are more concerned with having many small joys rather than having one huge joy.” – Robert M. Sherfield
What is YOUR greatest source of joy? How can you connect that with the "task" of writing a book? Here's how...
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“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” ― Christopher Morley
In today's episode, I walk you through 3 pieces of information/writing elements that I like to include when writing back cover book copy.
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“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” ―H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Today, I share 3 ways that, as an author, you can give back and support our collective author community!
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“Memoir isn’t the summary of a life; it’s a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It’s not; it’s a deliberate construction.” ~William Zinsser
How do you know which stories to include in your memoir and which ones to leave out? Some guidelines, in today's episode.
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For today's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from the book "Abruptly Alone: A Widow's Memoir" by Jeannie Meach Fredrick. AND a related writing tip for you!
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Henry Stanley Haskins
7 questions you can use to interview yourself on your pretend (or future) book media tour! These will help you dream beyond your work in progress to your published book AND give you clarity on what you're writing about and who you are as an author.
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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It’s that easy, and that hard.” — Neil Gaiman
Today's FAQs Friday question: When writing a self-help book, how do you create a balance between teaching the process and including your personal story?
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"It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book." -Douglas Adams
Being an author ROCKS - right? Here are 4 big reasons why. How can you use these advantages in your daily life
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"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings." -John Updike
For this week's #WriterWednesday episode - 3 tips for writing a book when you literally do not have time to write a book.
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -Leonardo da Vinci.
What is the secret to writing a book that a reader cannot walk away from? Secret revealed today!
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Here’s today’s quote: “I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.” ~Susan Cheever
One of the most valuable roles of a memoir - bringing social stigmas and biases out of the shadows and into the light. Sharing a powerful message in today's episode that I think we all need to hear right now.
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Today's Sunday Story Time excerpt is one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite classics. As always, the excerpt is followed by study questions for YOUR writing!
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“A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.” — Helen Dunmore.
Here's your writing assignment for this weekend AND a personal tidbit about what I'LL be doing tonight...
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"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. —Ernest Hemingway
Today's FAQ: "How do I write an engaging fiction story AND weave in all the messages and lessons from my career that I want to include?" Secrets of the "business fable."
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“I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.” ~Kurt Vonnegut.
8 of my favorite basic rules of creative writing, some of which I'm constantly referencing to my book coaching clients.
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“Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn’t love you. It doesn’t care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.” — Al Kennedy.
3 ways to get unstuck if you're legitimately and massively stuck, nearly paralyzed, in the writing of your book.
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“I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,” -Jacqueline Woodson.
Why do I keep insisting "writing a book changes lives" and exactly which lives do I mean by that? All answers revealed today & proof!
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"Don’t just plan to write — write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style." — PD James.
It occurs to me that NaNoWriMo is an excellent way of reinforcing the invisible line of demarcation between writing a book and writing/editing/polishing a book as you write it. Here's why that's important and what you can do even if you're not doing NaNoWriMo this time!
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from one of my FAVORITE books of all time - "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Why - especially as authors, creatives - we should not take things personally. (Also, as humans on social media these days!)
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“We need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.” ― Stephen King.
Happy Halloween! A scary (not really) writing assignment to spark your creative juices this weekend.
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“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” – Cicero.
Today's FAQs Friday listener question: "I'm about halfway through writing my book but I still don't 'feel' like an author. How do I gain confidence?"
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“We begin to judge our work too early and think we need to achieve perfection. Inevitably writer’s block will come knocking because we can’t meet those expectations. We need to give ourselves permission to fail so we have the freedom to explore, experiment and improve.” -Lynda R Young
The biggest reason for not (thoroughly) editing your work-in-progress manuscript too early on in the writing process.
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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” - Stephen King
3 things you can do NOW if you're planning on writing a book next year - or hopefully sooner!
As promised, here's a link to a book development process I invented years ago, called a Book Blueprint. Use the coupon code INKFRIENDS and it's free, thank you YDWH listeners! http://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.” ― Brene Brown
A brief but important message today that might change how you look at the value of your personal stories.
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“To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.” -Steve Jobs.
3 "Mindset Monday" tips to help you remove writing blocks and get your book done!
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For this week's Sunday Story Time episode, an excerpt from one of my favorite books, "Tools of Titans" by Tim Ferriss - from an interview he did with actor/writer B.J. Novak ("Ryan the temp" on Tv's The Office). Great brainstorming technique here that I hope you will try in your next writing cave!
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“Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.” – Oscar Wilde
Offering up an introspective and hopefully fun writing assignment to keep your creative writing muscles conditioned and the creative sparks flying this weekend.
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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." – Buddha
The FAQs Friday question that I answer in today's episode: "My book idea is currently more of a mess than an idea. I have ideas flying everywhere in my head that I can't seem to make sense of. Help! How do I sort this all out and move forward with writing my book??"
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“Idea generation is about quantity, not quality. Multiplication, not subtraction. Editing comes later. The goal of brainstorming is to walk out with buckets of ideas, not one precious idea perched on a pillow.” ― Sam Harrison.
3 Keys of My Ghostwriting Process That You Can Use in YOUR Book Writing!
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." – Benjamin Franklin
3 Things You Can (and Should!) Do Right Now If You're Planning on Publishing a Book Within the Next Year.
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"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." -Lord Byron
3 key differences between the written and spoken word.
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“One rule for first full working drafts: get them done ASAP. Don’t worry about quality. Act, don’t reflect. Momentum is everything. Get to THE END as if the devil himself were breathing down your neck and poking you in the butt with his pitchfork.” - Steven Pressfield
On this week's "3 Pillars Monday" episode: The Difference Between Drafts, Outside Help, and "Natural Talent."
What are you trying to accomplish in your writing before year's end? Share with your fellow authors in Ink Authors on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from my memoir "The Power of the Curve" and a lesson YOU can apply to your own writing!
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“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” ― Erma Bombeck.
Ready for your writing assignment this weekend?
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“Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Many of you - of us - are apparently having trouble concentrating on your writing this year. Here's why a) that's to be expected and b) something you can do to refocus.
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“Identify what in your life is not working and rewrite it so it works.” -Russell Redenbaugh
Why not apply our author editing skills to the stories we're telling ourselves about our past, present, and future? 3 questions to "rewrite" your current life challenges!
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“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." ― David McCullough
A 3 question exercise to write an answer to well-meaning people who say - "Oh you're writing a book? What's it about?" Get clarity for yourself AND create future readers!
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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius.
In a writing funk? Try this!
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"A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable." —Eileen Caddy.
It's 3 pillars Monday, where I offer a tip in each of my 3 author success areas: writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits. (The "20 minute miracle" is today's productivity habit tip!)
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For this week's Sunday Story Time, a topic VERY relevant to 2020 - how immersing yourself in a constant diet of "the news" actually affects your nervous system. AND an exercise you can do to see for yourself how your brain/nervous system are impacted by news stories. Remember, as an author you're a human being first so how your body operates matters!
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"Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally." -Germany Kent.
Listen to today's episode for your writing "homework assignment" for the weekend!
Then drop by Ink Authors, say hello to your fellow authors, let us know what you're working on and how we can all support you: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
"Dare to ask questions. There are answers to any question." -Lailah Gifty Akita
Today's FAQs Friday question is: "People keep saying to write a book, but realistically, how do I know if I actually have the skills needed to do it?"
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"The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored." -Criss Jami.
Rather than seeing the 2020 turbulence as a purely negative, like so many people around us, how, as authors we can embrace the chaos and use it to create good!
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“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.” ― Margaret Atwood.
Today I offer up some strategies for rekindling your excitement about the book (or books) you've already published - perhaps some time ago. Are you feeling a little disconnected from them? Here's how to reconnect!
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"Ready? It doesn't matter. The world is changed by people who aren't ready." -Richie Norton.
You've done all your book development work, you think you're ready to start actually writing your book. But something's holding you back... that pesky little voice in the back of your head. Let's talk about that voice!
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"Don't be a 'writer.' Be writing." -William Faulkner
Those "3 pillars" I mention at the top of every episode - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits... exactly HOW do they come together to help authors be successful and turn "non-authors" into published ones? Today, I break it down for you!
Let's connect! Visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
For today's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, offering 4 questions to help you pick habits that will stick.
Here's the first one to get you started (listen to today's episode for all 4!): "What feels like fun to me, but work to others?" - James Clear.
Get your copy of Atomic Habits (one of my recent favorite books ever!): https://amzn.to/33pNK3X
"I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession." -Sara Sheridan
Happy Saturday fellow authors! Today I share a content creation assignment that is sure to ignite your author content vault and draw attention to your work.
Share what you create in our Ink Author group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
"Coaches are aware of how to ignite passion and motivate people. They have an energy that is contagious and know exactly how to get their team excited." -Brian Cagneey
Today's FAQs Friday question is - How do I know if I should hire a ghostwriter or a book coach to help me write my book? In today's episode I lay out some differences between those two choices.
Have a FAQ's Friday question you'd like to submit? https://christine-ink.com/contact/
"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying." -Roy T. Bennett
Today I share two of my favorite author myths about writing a book, why they're so entertaining, and how to move past them and finish writing your book. I'll give you a hint - one involves a cabin. ;)
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin
In today's episode I share a simple but powerful and potentially disarming distinction between being a beginner and attaining mastery in any skill, including writing.
Planning on doing NaNoWriMo? Drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let us know - you're in good company! https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
"Don't fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today." -Michael Hyatt
Writing a book changes the author. Today I share the "why" and "how" behind that change.
Remember to drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and share how we can support YOUR writing goals: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
"Sometimes, thinking too much can destroy your momentum." -Tom Watson
Breaking away from our usual "3 pillars Monday" format today to share TWO very specific and effective writing strategies to keep going and not get stuck during your writing sessions.
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from the recently published book "Take Control of Your Job Search: 10 Emotions You Must Master to Land the Job" by Lauren Herring, CEO of IMPACT Group. This excerpt focuses on how to build your "super team" as a job searcher AND also the value of a super team to authors!
"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state." -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A journaling exercise to learn how to observe yourself as an author and WHY you should do it!
"You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain." -Jefferson Smith.
Today I offer 4 suggestions to help determine whether that call you just got is potentially an author-related scam.
Remember to stop by Ink Authors on Facebook with your follow-up questions: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
"Play with the blood!" -Maestro Rodrigo De Souza, "Mozart in the Jungle." (TV Series.)
What does "flow" mean to you as an author? Let's explore that today!
And let's keep the conversation going in my Ink Authors group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
A VERY special & timely interview with 3-time Emmy Winner and 3-time author, Judge Cristina Perez, revisiting the book she wrote in the summer of 2016 about the issues dividing America and how to unite as one American identity.
Get your copy of Cristina's book "Red, White & Latina: Our American Identity": http://www.redwhiteandlatina.com/
Here's today's quote for authors: "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers." -Tony Robbins.
Today I share 3 strategies for nonfiction authors in particular who aren't sure they have a "message" or lesson to share with the world in a book!
"Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are." -Bill Gates.
It's 3 Pillars Monday where I offer 1 tip in each of my "3 pillars" for becoming a successful author - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits.
Remember to drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook for even MORE author support! https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
Sunday Story Time! A book excerpt from a storytelling master that reminds us why it's important to love (or at least not hate) ALL the characters we write - even the "bad" ones (and why the actor Lee Marvin disagrees with the idea of a "bad" character).
Remember to stop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let us know how we can support your book writing goals: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." -Aristotle
Whether you're writing your memoir or not, the better you can know thyself, the better an author you will be. Here's a writing exercise you can do to "know thyself" even better!
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." -Lou Holtz
Why "the buck stops with the author" in publishing and how I learned that.
"The universe feeds all the birds in the world, but what it does not do is drop the food in their nests. You want something? Go get it!" -Clyde Lee Dennis.
3 tips to move writing from a "someday thing" to a "today thing" and get writing!
Are you new to the idea of creating "author content" (for your book and/or author brand)? Today I share a 3 part exercise to make the process easier along with a message to move you past any anxieties around "content marketing."
3 writing "hacks" for getting your book from Point A to Point B with less stress and MORE fun!
A writing fundamentals tip about trusting in the work you've already put into your book. A productivity habit tip about this very show. And a mindset tip about your imperfections.
Be sure and drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let us know how we can support your writing goals!
Sharing a personal childhood story from my memoir "The Power of the Curve" AND a related book writing lesson for your writing.
Learn more about my memoir (especially fellow scoliosis survivors!): http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking” ― Albert Einstein.
I have a field trip for you all, hopefully for this weekend!
Tell me how it goes: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors.
"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." -Oprah Winfrey.
How do you find your next writing "passion" project? How I tackled this question myself recently - and how I was successful in doing it.
“It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.” ~Marquis de Sade
If you decide to write a book but are unfamiliar with the publishing process - where do you begin? Some factors to consider in your research AND key questions to ask to be sure you're getting the right information for YOUR project.
"When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener." -Paula Fox
3 key writing lessons that were reinforced for me recently while ghostwriting a children's book for a client.
"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life." -Ray Bradbury.
A fun assessment to sync up with your creative brain and create a writing schedule that works for YOU!
"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." -Jim Rohn.
How to practice your writing fundamentals daily, plus your only real job as an artist!
Switching things up for this week's Sunday Story Time with a screenplay excerpt from a critically-acclaimed, award winning TV series AND writing lessons we can learn from it.
"I love writing. It's a fun challenge. It refuels me personally." -Trevor McNevan
3 ways to switch up traditional book-writing structures and infuse some creativity!
Swing by my Ink Authors group on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors
“Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.” ― Benjamin Lee Whorf.
Today's FAQs Friday question, a recent question from a new client, is: "What should I do to prepare to work with you?" Beyond working with me, here are some steps you can take to prepare for YOUR book writing project!
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” ― George Bernard Shaw.
A WHOLE bunch of techniques for building rapport with your readers through "universal truths."
Remember to stop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let us know how we can support your book writing goals: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors
"The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship." -Robin Sharma.
3 things you can do when you've written yourself into a corner and are ready to give up on your book project.
“When grace moves in… guilt moves out.” – Max Lucado
September already?!?! Here are 3 tips to power through and reach your writing goals by year's end.
“You don’t start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it’s good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That’s why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.” ― Octavia E. Butler.
1 tip for each of my "pillars for becoming a successful author" - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits!
An excerpt from "Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Win Hearts, Change Minds, Get Results" by Rob Biesenbach.
Where are all the story ideas? Well, right in front of you, of course...
“What if, when we are feeling less than happy, we were prescribed two genuinely inspiring experiences each day?” ― Elaina Marie.
What if... you had a fun AND proactive tool for combating writer's block? "What if" no more - I share that tool in today's episode!
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot
This week's FAQ's Friday listener question is: "What's the point of writing an "old fashioned" book when, in the age of tech, there are SO many other ways to get my words out?"
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” ― Anais Nin
Creativity takes courage. Being a writer turns that courage into words. My arguments for why you should put those "crazy thoughts" inside your head, onto paper to share with others.
“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.” ― Lorrie Moore.
Today I pose 3 questions to help you build a solid foundation for your novel!
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
A whole bunch of problems we all have in common with famous authors, and 3 ways to solve all those problems.
“The value of identity of course is so often with it comes purpose.” -Richard Grant
You may be writing a book - but does that make you an author? My answer might surprise you but I hope no matter what it inspires you!
For this week's Sunday Story Time episode, an excerpt from the book "The Stress Switch: The Truth About Stress and How to Short Circuit It" by Dr. Amy Serin. Click the show episode link to get your copy - SUPER important this year more than ever! The more we understand how stress works, the better we can deal with it.
"If you wait for inspiration to write you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.” ~ Dan Poynter.
Deep thoughts about human existence that lead to good news about being a writer!
“Clarity and simplicity are the antidotes to complexity and uncertainty.” – General George Casey
It's FAQ's Friday and today I answer the listener question: "What would you recommend as the very first step in developing a new book idea?"
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.” ― Martina Navratilova
Does it seem like the "bestselling author" club is getting a little crowded lately? In today's episode, allow me to re-frame your focus from a marketing label to the REAL reason to write a book.
“A good process produces good results.” - Nick Saban.
Why process is SO important in writing a book and get yourself a copy of my Book Blueprint Guide for free by going here: http://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
Be sure and use the coupon code at checkout INKFRIENDS to make it free!
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” ―Mary Kay Ash.
How I'm currently tackling a VERY long held limiting belief and why you should do the same as a writer.
"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton.
It's Monday which means I give you 1 tip in each of my "3 pillar" areas of writing a book: Writing Fundamentals, Productivity, and Mindset Habits.
An excerpt from my memoir "The Power of the Curve" addressing the common self-help notion that we're all moving on a path toward one clearly defined goal or purpose - and what I think about that notion!
"Inspiration is a byproduct of discipline... simply getting up every day and planning, plotting, sketching, setting up or actually applying paint to a painting." -Beverly Claridge
3 unexpected sources of inspiration to get those creative juices going.
It's FAQs Friday where I answer YOUR book-related questions! This week's question: "People keep telling me I should write a book but I haven't the first clue as to what to write about. Where do I begin?"
Send me YOUR FAQs Friday questions to: https://christine-ink.com/contact/
“In innovating and inventing, an “overnight success” is really “overnight recognition” for a process that began first with curiosity which then transformed into learning and then evolved into an iterative process of trying, failing, and trying a different way, over and over, until finally the breakthrough was achieved. The initial spark of curiosity and willingness to constantly learn from failure are keys to the ultimate success.” -Russell Redenbaugh (ShiftTheNarrative.com).
A different approach to the question of - "Who's my target reader?" And some examples and an exercise to help you!
Rather than use your busy-ness as an excuse NOT to write your book, here's why you should let it fuel your book writing!
Mindset Monday! Why it's important for your "why" for writing a book to have some weight... some stickiness to it.
For this week's Sunday Story Time: An excerpt from the book "Unleash the Power of Storytelling" by Rob Biesenbach.
Let's add some play into your writing process by "acting as if" you're a famous professional author! Here are 4 ways to do that. And please post pics of how YOU play author in my Ink Authors Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors
A big behind-the-scenes secret from my memoir "The Power of the Curve" (hint - it has to do with the title) and how it affects YOUR writing.
Learn more about my story & get your copy at: http://www.powerofthecurve.com/
It's important to build a strong foundation for your book, and one that supports your WHY for writing it. But... once you get into the thick of things, don't get TOO stuck in the individual steps of your plan. In today's episode I tell you why that is and how to make this distinction.
3 Pillars Monday which means 1 tip in each of my 3 core areas of being a successful author - writing fundamentals (where you know a LOT more than you think you do!), productivity, and mindset habits.
Be sure and drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook for motivation, accountability, publishing resources, and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors
Usually for "Sunday Story Time" I read an excerpt from a book off my shelf - whether my own, a client book, or a book that has impacted me in some way. But I want to read YOUR books on the air and help you get exposure for your work! Please contact me at the link below (also the show episode link) so we can get the ball rolling!
https://christine-ink.com/contact/
You know how when you're learning something new, in writing or otherwise, and your teacher gives you a "seemingly" straightforward piece of advice that "should" be easy to apply... but then it's not? Here's why that is AND what to do about it!
This is a question I received recently from one of my Book Blueprint clients - "How many hours a day do YOU write Christine?" I'll admit I found the question a little amusing since that's not the metric I use to measure the success of a writing day. In today's episode I share how I DO determine the success of a writing/work day!
You're not alone. It has happened to every author out there, most likely even the uber-famous ones... a book project goes off the rails and ends up in the corner collecting metaphorical dust. Assuming it's a book you actually DO want to write, today's episode shares 3 creative strategies for getting your book project back on track!
Hitting the "author self doubt" topic from a few angles today. Looking for an inspirational boost? This episode is for you!
I watched an extremely cliche movie about "writers not writing" over the weekend called "Authors Anonymous" - my observations on what made it such a cliche, along with two questions it prompted: Why and how should we support each other as authors?
It's 3 Pillars Monday - where I share one author writing tip in each of these areas: Writing Fundamentals, Productivity Tools, and Mindset Habits. Today I talk about avoiding cliches, setting new habits by "piggybacking" with existing ones, and an anti-anxiety hack. Visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook and share one of YOUR writing habits! https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors
For today's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from the new release "Take Control of Your Job Search: 10 Emotions You Must Master to Land the Job" by friend of the show and recent YDWH guest Lauren Herring. The excerpt addresses anxiety in the job search and is also applicable to life as an author. And if you are currently looking for a job this book is a MUST read for you - click the episode link to learn more and get yourself a copy!
Are you scheduling your writing sessions on your calendar (good job!) - but for whatever reason they're STILL not happening? Today's episode is custom made for you, revealing a possible missing piece to your "writing cave."
Swing by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let me know if it resonates with you: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors
Today's FAQ's Friday question is: "How am I supposed to create social media and editorial content around my book if I only just started writing it?"
My answer is one that benefits you AND your readers!!
Get my Book Blueprint guide here & use the coupon code INKFRIENDS to make it free: http://theinkagency.net/product/book-blueprint-guide/
The idea that there are people out there waiting to read your story, is not a hypothetical one. Their names, faces, and lives might be out of focus at the moment - but believe me, they're out there. Here's a sampling of some of them, in today's episode.
3 questions to help you uncover the intersection of story and message in your memoir, using my story "The Power of the Curve" as an example (powerofthecurve.com).
Being a ghostwriter of 19 years and dozens of book titles, I think I've heard all the misconceptions about ghostwriting and ghostwriters. Today, I debunk 3 of my favorite ones!
I have an extremely quotable client author named Russell Redenbaugh ("Shift the Narrative") and today I share with you one of my FAVORITE questions he poses and what that has to do with writing (and finishing) your book.
Listen to my recent interview with Russell here on the show: https://youtu.be/384fNu6u4gA
As authors we have the opportunity to lead conversations, and this includes on social media, where the conversation is perceived (especially lately) to be more negative than positive. In today's Sunday Story Time I reveal research that proves the opposite to be true AND pose a question about how as authors we can capitalize on the "positivity" of social media.
3 questions to help you read books "like an author" AND without taking away your enjoyment as a reader.
Today I answer the questions: "How do I know if I'm writing the write book? What if I'm wasting my time?"
A personal story about a time in my life when I felt invisible and why I NEVER want you to feel that way (and what to do about it).
Value packed episode today, ESPECIALLY for job seekers! My guest is CEO of IMPACT Group and job search expert, Lauren Herring. Lauren talks about the impact of emotions on the job search, specifically during the pandemic AND offers some fantastic strategies to deal with fear, a common emotion in light of the year's events.
Click on the episode link to get your copy of Lauren's book (which is already a #1 New Release!).
Also, as part of her launch, Lauren's company IMPACT Group is donating career coaching services to under served communities.
As authors it's rare that we can EVER take off our "author hats." If you think about it, it's a full-time job (whether you get paid for it or not). Here are 4 reasons why that's an awesome thing!
Today's "3 Pillars Monday" episode covers QUITE the gamut of topics - from the benefits of contrasts & juxtapositions to uncovering your distraction triggers to a peak performance tip for your writing sessions. Click the link to visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let us know how we can support your writing goals!
For today's Sunday Story Time an inspiring entrepreneurial tale from the book "No Fear Allowed" by Laura Herring. How can you be as innovative and bold as Laura was in this story to get the attention of YOUR audience?
Happy Saturday, let's have some writing fun with these 3 dynamic scene prompts to spice up your book. Or if you're not currently working on a book, maybe it will spark you to get started!
A quick reality check on what it ACTUALLY takes to write and finish writing a great book!
"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia." -Kurt Vonnegut
Why this is true and an even bigger reason for narrowing the target audience of your book!
For many authors, the idea of creating a library of content used to draw readers toward your book, can be more stressful than writing the book itself! Here are 3 fun ways to get your library started and start building your new content creation habit. Click the episode link to check out my 10 Day Content Challenge Workbook to build it even more!
One great lesson from each of my show guests so far - a variety of AWESOME wisdom in today's episode!! Click the episode link to go to my YouTube list of guest interviews (subscribe while you're there!).
Tips in each of my "3 pillars" areas - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits. From making less sense to finding the value in daydreaming to a way to prove that people DO care what you have to say!
This week's Sunday Story Time is mindset themed - what's your version of the "I am the way I am" syndrome? Find out what that means and what you can do.
Today's "FAQs Friday" question deals with how to build up our writing skills through people watching, something we normally might do at coffee shops and other public places - but how do we do that in quarantine??? Here's a fun exercise you can do to keep those skills sharp!
Today's episode addresses the common argument for not writing a book - "I'm afraid of rejection, failure and overall embarrassment." Here's why that's a GOOD thing and how to get past it and write your book!
I've learned (and am continuing to learn!) how to survive MY curves. Now I want to help YOU survive yours! Here are 3 ways to find power in the curve balls life throws your way. For more info about my memoir "The power of the curve" - powerofthecurve.com.
I can say with complete honesty that the ONLY times in my career that "time has opened up in my schedule" - is when I intentionally opened it up (i.e. scheduled what I wanted within it). A quick mini-soapbox rant on the subject of "time" today!
"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separate the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." -Stephen King.
What to fall back on when the "spark" - whether of talent or creative passion.... fails you.
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from a client book - "The Pilot Method: The 5 Elemental Truths to Leading Yourself in Life!" by Black Hawk helicopter pilot Elizabeth McCormick. The lesson is about how to use fear to your advantage rather than as an obstacle between you and your goals! Click the episode link to learn more about Elizabeth's book.
As promised, here are the 7 movies/TV shows I mentioned in today's episode: 1. Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul 2. Wolf of Wall Street. vs. Boiler Room 3. Goodfellas 4. M.A.S.H. 5. Mr. Holland's Opus 6. David Mamet films (Glengarry Glen Ross, Wag the Dog) 7. Office Space, the Vacation movies
Enjoy the lessons and be sure and chime in at my Ink Authors groups on Facebook (click the episode link) with YOUR favorite movies/TV series to study as an author!
"What was the biggest lesson you learned from writing and publishing your memoir?" This is a question I heard a few times last weekend when I launched "The Power of the Curve" (click the episode link above). My answer is actually validation of something I've been telling my author for YEARS - so thank goodness I was right! ;)
"Who cares about my story?" - the answer I learned from writing my own memoir that can hopefully give you the inspiration and courage to share YOUR story!
3 things you can (and should) do within a week of launching your book, to keep the conversation going with your new readers!
Some writing fundamentals tips (and a formatting one!) to help make for a more pleasant reading experience for your readers AND why that's so important.
Let's challenge ourselves this week, and adopt a "High Performance Author Mindset." What does that mean? In today's episode I explain AND give you an assignment to take it out for a spin - let's have some fun!
An EXCLUSIVE book excerpt today from an incredible woman - Shellye Archambeau. Her book isn't available until October but I have an advanced copy & exclusive excerpt for today's Sunday Story Time! Click the episode link to go pre-order your copy on Amazon.
A special "The Power of the Curve" launch day edition of the show where I break one of my cardinal rules for authors about marketing your books... but for good reason! ;)
Get your copy of my memoir "The Power of the Curve" by Christine Whitmarsh on Amazon TODAY!!!!
For today's FAQs Friday I was asked: "Did you scoliosis get more severe as you grew? How did this impact your schooling, social life, and your adolescent self confidence?" My candid answers in today's episode!
TOMORROW is launch day for my memoir "The Power of the Curve" - be sure and visit powerofthecurve.com to get your free chapter and you get your copy of the whole book tomorrow on Amazon. Thank you, enjoy!
4 tips for taking your journaling to the next level and maybe even using it as prep work for your future memoir. Speaking of.... it's launch week for my memoir "The Power of the Curve" - be sure and visit powerofthecurve.com to get your free chapter. The book comes out this Saturday 6/20!
3 tips for getting the best, most useful and productive feedback on your manuscript in progress! And remember it's launch week for my memoir "The Power of the Curve" - be sure and visit powerofthecurve.com to get your free chapter. The book come out this Saturday 6/20!
2 pieces of (writing) advice for these turbulent yet historic times that we're all currently living in. And please click the link to drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let us know how we can support you (author-wise or any-wise).
Why my reaction, at age 19, facing major surgery for severe scoliosis, was different than you might think. And be sure and go to the link and download a chapter from my memoir, available on Amazon June 20th!
For today's Sunday Story Time - it's a new excerpt from my memoir The Power of the Curve (of course - since it launches this Saturday!!!). Enjoy this awkwardly funny glimpse into my days as a student nurse. AND a learning/writing question for you at the end!
As I tell my Writers Club Live group author program folks - your writing brain is like any other muscle in your body. It requires regular conditioning to keep it strong (so it will perform the way you want it to!!). Here's a writing prompt to use as your daily writing brain exercise. Click the link for more information about Writers Club Live.
It's FAQs Friday here on Your Daily Writing Habit! Today's question is - why write a memoir if you're not old, or notable in some way? Why would readers care about life stories about "regular people"? Happy to answer that and be sure and click the link for your free excerpt from MY upcoming memoir, The Power of the Curve!
Here's a story that didn't make it into my memoir "The Power of the Curve" - a career lesson I learned about trying to go backward in life. Click the link to learn more about my memoir AND download an actual excerpt from the book!!
For this week's #WriterWednesday tips - 3 Ways to Get Over the, "My Writing is Boring and I Suck!" Hump. (PS: It's not and you don't!!!)
An announcement about my upcoming memoir The Power of the Curve (and free gift for you) AND several lessons learned throughout the process to help YOUR writing.
It's 3 Pillars Monday where I offer up a tip in the 3 major areas of the show - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits! Today - watering down language, "voting" for a new habit, and something you can do to remind yourself that it's worth it to share your words.
Sunday Story Time today features an excerpt about racism from the book "Red, White & Latina: Our American Identity." The book came out in 2017 but is obviously even more timely today.
An important show topic today - how can we use one of our greatest strengths and tools as authors, to contribute positively to the empathy conversation?
Today's FAQ's Friday question: "How do you capture your ideas - and coherently?" How I do it and a tip for you!
I recently came across one of my old blog posts, from 7/20/16, called "In Uncertain Times, Speak Up." The words in this post are so timely NOW that it might blow your mind but more importantly - it will help to ease it.
Such a special episode today - an interview with one of my mentors, Russell Redenbaugh. We covered SO much ground in this episode - the lessons and gifts that come from trauma, victimhood, shifting the narrative of your life to get more of you want, habits and more. I never say this - but this is a MUST listen!!
About Russell: Blind from the age of 16, Russell Redenbaugh's achievements as a successful investor and economist, a Commissioner on the US Civil Rights Commission serving under three US Presidents and a black belt, three time gold medal jiu-jitsu world champion fighting sighted opponents, prove that if he can, you can. Russell is the founder of Kairos Capital Advisors, a financial advisor helping investors achieve better results by breaking free of Wall Street's tranquilizing narratives. He is also the author of Shift the Narrative: A Blind Man's Vision for Rewriting the Stories that Limit Us which is available through his website ShiftTheNarrative.com.
Quite often, the problems to your book writing problems will not be solved in the domain of books - or sometimes, even writing. Today's show gives you a slightly different problem solving perspective.
It's 3 Pillars Monday - where I share one tip for each pillar: Writing Fundamentals, Productivity, and Mindset habits. 3 solid ones today!!!
Today for Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from a powerful client book - "30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor" by Karen Gedney, MD. AND a question for you to ponder about how authors can play the role of advocates. Click the link to get your copy of this amazing book!
I write wherever I go and sometimes that means funny situations - click the link to find the hair salon pic I mention in today's episode. And most importantly, pop over to my Ink Authors group on Facebook and post YOUR "writing out in public" pic. All in the name of author camaraderie!
Some traits I've noticed in celebrities/people at the top of their respective industries that we can all steal as authors to raise our personal bars!
Why reading novels is one of THE most important tools in your writing toolbox, no matter what kind of book you're writing.
Today I share the 3 most important things I share with my new book coaching clients in their first call with me.
One lesson I learned from the writing of my upcoming memoir "The Power of the Curve" about how smart readers are and therefore an important point about structuring the "story meets lesson" aspect of your books.
3 Pillars Monday means 3 tips in these 3 areas: writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits. (Hint: The 3rd one has to do with elite athletes and you!)
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from a great (and actually quite positive) book I'm reading called - "The Power of Bad" AND a journaling exercise for you! Click link to check out the book for yourself.
Something I'm always reminding my book coaching clients - "Oh, and don't forget to have FUN while you're writing!" It can be easy to forget especially amidst all the challenges of writing a book, but FUN is so important. Here's a tip for inserting fun into your book writing process.
This week's FAQs Friday question is: "How can I write my scenes in a more interesting way?" 5 ways, actually...
My interpretation of the thinking - "you have to go through stuff to write about stuff."
3 tip/writing exercises around the lesson - "when setting a scene, you don't have to describe EVERY detail." Why this and how to do it!
3 recent thoughts I had about what's coming for authors & publishing "post pandemic" and what you can do about it.
It's 3 Pillars Monday - where I share tips in the areas of Writing Fundamentals, Productivity, and Mindset Habits!
What does the word "distraction" mean, what is the opposite, why it is a problem AND an awareness exercise you can do right now to see where you stand on the distraction spectrum.
3 fun brainstorming exercises to get the creative juices flowing around your book, help you get unstuck - or whatever the purpose of your brainstorming!
Today's FAQs Friday question is: "If you had to choose just ONE social media lesson for authors, what would it be?" And as I mention in today's episode, the link goes to my brand new "10 Day Content Challenge Workbook" - check it out!
5 self-editing questions you can apply to the first 5 pages of your book to ensure you have a strong, well-organized foundation moving forward.
Whether for fiction or real life scenes in your book, here are 3 tips for writing more intense conflict scenes.
4 reasons I believe memoirs/biographies continue to be SUCH a popular genre of nonfiction books. And stay tuned for more details about the launch of my own memoir "The Power of the Curve" - coming 6/20 (especially my fellow scoliosis warriors and family members of people with scoliosis).
"Literary it up" - is just ONE of the 3 tips you'll get in this week's "3 Pillars Monday" episode!
For this week's Sunday Story Time - an excerpt about "how long things SHOULD take" from my project management book "Nuke the Elephant" (click the link to get your copy).
It's Saturday-Funday, time to kick back! Let's look at some lessons from Dr. Seuss and how they apply to us as authors.
This week's question is from a first time author writing a business fable style book (think Patrick Lencioni), who is trying to figure out how to write the fiction AND business sides of the book together.
"Uncertainty" is definitely the word of the year for 2020 so far! But outside of its massive overuse in commercials, how can we use uncertainty to our advantage as authors?
Today's 3 #WriterWednesday action questions are about your manuscript self-editing process & how to call it "done."
I want to hear YOUR one sentence "TED Talk" for authors! Click the link to drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and share it with us.
One author tip for each of my "3 pillars" of being an author - writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits.
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt about brand from the client book: "MOO-LAH-GY: Uncovering the Secret Cash Cow Hidden in Your Brand" by brand expert Kelly Lucente. AND as always - an action question for YOUR writing!
Why David Letterman was onto something with his "top 10 lists" and how it can help us brainstorm as authors! Also a sidebar on "gut instinct" and "creative intuition."
This week's FAQs Friday episode deals with potential legal (or at minimum - toe stepping) issues around writing your memoir - and offers a "safe" solution.
Reasons why being prolific as an author these days might just be the ONLY way to be seen by your audience.
3 tips for diving back into your manuscript after stepping away from it for any period of time!
Why write a book, ESPECIALLY when there are so many other ways of communicating with your audience these days? Well - obviously - I have opinions on this... for your sake, I narrowed it down to a a few key arguments though. ;)
"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally." -Don Miguel Ruiz But as creatives, that can be no small task! Here are 4 empowering AND productive ways of dealing with those emotional, irrational situations in life.
This week's Sunday Story Time excerpt comes from the book "Red White & Latina: Our American Identity" by my client Judge Cristina Perez. She wrote this book in 2017 but I think you'll find the excerpt to be slightly prophetic about what our country is going through now. And most importantly, an action question to inspire YOUR writing!
A fun writing exercise for your Saturday! And for more information about Writers Club Live and how it can support YOUR writing goals, click the link.
It's FAQs Friday and a first time author writes - "Am I writing too slowly?" My in-depth answer & MOST important message around that!
Today I introduce one of my favorite creative brainstorming techniques and walk you through step by step, how to use it to work through YOUR writing problems.
Heads up nonfiction authors, it may say "literary" but this week is especially for YOU! 3 action questions to add a spark to your writing.
Today, attacking the topic of "author brand" from a mindset standpoint and hopefully addressing some of your author anxieties.
Let's look at ALL the things that could potentially fit under your author brand umbrella - past, present AND future. For now, no pressure to actually execute on any of them either.... just dream, and dream big!
It's Sunday Story Time and this week - a "brand nugget" from the incomparable & wise Seth Godin (one of my favorites!). And as always - making it actionable for you and your writing!
"Where do I start this whole 'author branding' thing anyway?" It's FAQs Friday and I'm answering YOUR book questions!
The next "author brand nugget" I have for you - 3 questions to ask your audience (or potential/future one)!
Next up in my weekly #WriterWednesday series, where I'm revealing key pieces of my process for developing and writing great books - dialogue tips!
Today's "author brand nugget" is a fun activity - word lists to help you understand and start to shape how your audience sees you!
Breaking down the possibly overwhelming topic of "author brand" into bite sized nuggets. Today's nugget - the who, what, why, when!
For this week's Sunday Story Time - "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. Why your struggles with habit setting may not be entirely your fault. Click the link to get this AWESOME book (my favorite on the subject of habits - and that's saying a lot)!
I definitely want to see what you guys come up with for this - a short story scavenger hunt! Click the link to visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook and post your pics/story.
FAQs Friday! "When should I start sending out my manuscript for opinions and feedback? And what are the different ways and purposes for doing this?"
If you're going to procrastinate from your book work in progress, at least keep the creative juices flowing & writing muscle conditioned. Here are some fun writing ideas based on current events!
Happy #WriterWednesday! Here are 3 specific action steps you can take to own your identity as an "author" - especially if this is a new role for you.
Many aspiring authors seem to be confused about what is required to be an author - and what is optional. Allow me to clarify for you...
Nonfiction authors - do you sometimes feel left out of the online, mostly fiction-based author conversation? Here are 3 fiction writing tools that you can adapt for YOUR books, thus making you a part of the conversation!
Sunday Story Time - "Nuke the Elephant: From Freelancer to Project Ringmaster" with TWO action questions for authors at the end of the excerpt. Click the link for more information about this book.
Be sure and share your answers to this quarantine-themed writing exercise in my Ink Authors group on Facebook (follow the link!).
It's FAQ's Friday and one author asks - "When developing my novel, which should I develop first - characters or plot?"
(Click on the link to visit my Ink Authors group and ask YOUR questions for future FAQs Friday episodes!)
"Rapport is the ability to enter someone else's world, to make him feel that you understand him, that you have a strong common bond." -Tony Robbins
3 Tips for Building Rapport with Your Readers From Page ONE of Your Book!
How to get your first week, or even month of writing your book off to a solid start! My 3 best tips.
My tips for researching & writing characters of the opposite sex OR that, on paper, are completely different than you.
Do you use life chaos as an excuse to abandon your writing goals - or to double down on them?
Sunday Story Time! An excerpt from a client book that talks about "contentment" - what it is & how we achieve it.
Fun & inspiring I promise - the "7 deadly sins" of writers! Click on the link here in the show notes to drop by my Ink Authors group on Facebook and say hello, let us know how you're doing, and how we can support your "quarantine" book writing goals!
It's my birthday! Here are the things I'm grateful for AND a special event invite for you - today 1pm EST! https://www.facebook.com/events/229445284923804/
What impact will current events have on your book idea? What layer of thought or ideas will be added? These and more questions in today's episode based on recent observations I've had while working with my authors on their book projects.
Continuing my weekly #WriterWednesday series where I'm revealing the pieces of my book development and writing process, 3 action questions for YOU at a time. This episode - your Chapter Writing Plan.
A mindset "state" that I believe authors should be in most of the time (to make us better observer) - including, and maybe especially, challenging times like these. As an author, this is an opportunity to learn!
Author lessons from war novels that can hopefully help you with YOUR book - even if this specific niche genre isn't your cup of tea!
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from a client book - "No Fear Allowed" by Laura Herring, followed by journaling questions about fear you can get to work on right now!
It's FAQs Friday and the question is: "I hate to admit it but I feel like lately I've lost my confidence as a writer. How do I get it back?" Here's my answer and click the link to drop by my Ink Authors Group on Facebook to drop YOUR future FAQs Friday question!
Questions you can ask to re-frame the trying times we're all going through now AND why being an author is an opportunity to make a difference!
Your book's architecture and table of contents is the structure that will transport your readers from beginning to end, ideally without losing their attention. Here's a 3 part exercise to make it happen!
The "up side" of being too afraid of rejection to start writing your book and how to get past it.
Of all the book struggles we face as authors, I feel like not knowing what to write about, ranks pretty low on our lists. So what do you do when you have TOO many book ideas? Here are 6 questions to help you choose the right book idea for right now! And if you still need help narrowing it down, visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook and run your finalists by my awesome community of authors like you, for feedback.
For this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from a client book - "The Stress Switch" by Dr. Amy Serin AND an important message about stress in relation to current events!
Happy Saturday fellow authors! Here are 3 fun new writing exercises to get your creative juices flowing. Visit my Ink authors to let me know how they work out for you, ESPECIALLY exercise #3 (super fun!).
FAQs Friday: What is a good singular starting point for marketing my book and what should I start doing it? Today's episode has my detailed answer AND link below to the free guide I mention: http://theinkagency.net/product/brand-bank-guide/
Scene writing is an important skill for fiction AND nonfiction authors. Here are several questions to help you write better, more detailed scenes that will grab your readers' attention and put them in your book!
Continuing our #WriterWednesday series, where every week I give you 3 action questions based on my book writing process, to help you write and promote YOUR book. Visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook to tell us about your writing goals & how we can help you!
Authors - Stuck writing on a new chapter in your book? Here's one of my favorite writing fundamentals tools for getting unstuck, refocused, and moving forward again.
Mindset Monday! Authors - don't worry about decorating the 2nd floor guest bedroom before you've laid the foundation of the house. Here's how to avoid self sabotaging yourself and your book. Remember to swing by my Ink Authors group on Facebook - it's where the authors (and publishing resources) go!
An excerpt from a client book "Shift the Narrative: A Blind Man's Vision for Rewriting the Stories That Limit Us" AND exciting news about the book!
Get your copy via - www.shiftthenarrative.com
Saturday fun! 3 of my favorite movies about writing/the creatives process, why they're favorites, plus 2 honorable mentions. Visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook and let me know what YOUR favorite movies about writing are!
What are two traits that all my authors have in common, whether the ones I work with one on one, in a group via my Writers Club Live program, or followers of my Ink Authors group on Facebook? Revealing those 2 traits plus one that ALL authors share!
2020 goals update, a thing I've learned about myself, and how it translates to an author productivity lesson for YOU.
Each Wednesday I'm giving you some of the highlights of my process of developing and writing books. Up today - your marketing vision!
It's a Writing Fundamentals day on YDWH! Today I reveal the one thing every book must have - that thing that the rest of the book is built around.
Happy Mindset Monday! So much of the content we see aimed toward authors is clearly toward fiction authors, novelists. All the memes, the inside jokes, and more. Nonfiction authors - do you sometimes feel left out of the club and maybe even "less" of an author? Today's episode is for YOU!
An excerpt from my screenplay turned novel - Canyon Road. AND a learning question for you about where your next great potential story might be found!
It's the weekend, let's have some fun with cliches & stereotypes about writers - which ones are true for you? Which ones are funny? Irritating? Strike a nerve? Visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook and chime in!
This week I answer a whole bunch of questions from an author who is on the 5th round of editing her book and the process is testing her sanity! Help is on the way...
A man apologized once, in a long, drawn-out letter to a friend, that he "didn't have time to write a short one." Why is writing FEWER words more of a challenge than writing a ton of words? A lesson on the art of brevity and 3 action tips you can use to master it in your writing!
Sorry for the "this call is being recorded" - last minute tech snag lol! Enjoy ALL the librarian wisdom of Lauren Cleveland - unexpected parts of her job and most importantly why, as an author, you should have your book in libraries and how to get it there.
The one mindset reason, once you have your book writing WHY, that there's nothing stopping you from writing a book.
An excerpt from an awesome book I'm reading about story, called "Stealing Fire from the Gods."
Maybe you "thought" you knew where your book was going but now, drafting your TOC and writing plan - you find yourself lost & confused. I have TWO things you can check right now that might help you out of the weeds and back on track writing your book!
Answering YOUR burning questions about all things books! "How do I write a good back copy blurb? What do I include and what do I leave out?"
Taking my recent invention, the Fiction Book Blueprint to the next level with these character development questions.
The Book Vision is my first step in helping authors turn their book ideas into a detailed plan of action to write it (my Book Blueprint). Here are 3 questions to help you write your book vision!
So many people struggling somewhere between setting their writing goals and actually making them happen. Today I reveal the missing piece!
Sharing a big reason SO many writing goals, especially lofty ones, fail to come to fruition and one simple step you can take to make sure YOUR goals don't join that group.
An excerpt from my upcoming memoir "The Power of the Curve" with a learning question for YOUR writing!
A fun episode of YDWH to kick off the weekend! My reasons why the book is better than the movie.
5 things I LOVE about working in book world helping authors make their dreams come true.
Today I'll reveal 4 core principles of crafting a well-written sentence that is "worth a thousand pictures."
How do you turn a writing talent into a tangible skill (one that can get you paid)? Look no further than the "3 things" I list at the beginning of EVERY episode - but now let's break them down specifically for this purpose!
Find out my 2020 (and prediction) marketing prediction for anyone in the business of selling anything - which includes authors of course!
An excerpt from "High Performance Habits" by Brendon Bouchard and how YOU can apply his words as an author, in your writing.
FAQs Friday - "Is anyone else having trouble sticking to their writing goals this year???"
For episode 300 (wow!) of YDWH, I'm sharing THREE things I'm seeing that are working for my authors.
Use this fun story exercise while you're watching commercials during the big game tomorrow and share your answers in my Ink Authors group on Facebook!
ONE question you can ask to determine the answer to the question - ghostwriter or book coach?
The last in my 4-part "first & most important lesson" learned series about various aspects of my job. (Episodes 291-294 for the whole series.)
Part 3 of 4 in my "first & most important lesson" learned series about various aspects of my job.
Part 2 of 4 in my "first & most important lesson" learned series about various aspects of my job.
Part I of IV in my "first & most important lesson" learned series about various aspects of my job.
For this week's Sunday Story Time - an excerpt from the book "Atomic Habits" by James Clear AND a surprising revelation... more of a de ja vou I had while reading it (and what you can learn from my de ja vou).
What lessons can we learn as book authors, from other writing mediums? Here's why that's important to ask!
It's FAQs Friday & as usual I'm answering YOUR questions. Today's is: When should I start concerning myself with my author brand? And does it even apply to me?
"Power of 3's Series" - FINAL two "3-oriented" questions to triple your book development power.
"Power of 3's Series" - next two "3-oriented" questions to triple your book development power.
"Power of 3's Series" - first two "3-oriented" questions to triple your book development power.
Motivation Monday! Some author affirmations to give you the self-confidence boosts you need to finish writing your book! Let me know if you'd like the written version - christine-ink.com contact page.
For this week's Sunday Story Time - what we can learn about book structuring from Tim Ferriss's book "Tools of Titans."
A special message for those of you who might need a different reason to write a book than to "change the world."
It's the LAST day of my "author facts vs. fiction" series so I figured why not really get your attention? Today's piece of fiction I'm fact-ifying: "Only sex and violence sell."
Welcome to day 3 of my "author fact vs. fiction" series! Today's piece of fiction - You have to be an English major to be an author.
It's day two of my "author fact vs. fiction" series! Today's piece of fiction: A book needs to be a bestseller to have an impact on many people.
In this week's Sunday Story Time, we'll learn about the role of memoirs in ancient Egypt and what that has to do with us as writers today.
Saturdays brings back memories of Saturday mornings as a kid, running to the TV with my bowl of Cheerios to watch cartoons in my pajamas. But what can we learn from cartoons as authors? Here are 3 things!
For this week's "FAQs Friday" I talk a little about our "creative brain" - the thing we rely on as writers and how to optimize it so it will perform the way we need it to, including seamlessly switching gears throughout projects.
I've finally adapted my regular nonfiction Book Blueprint for fiction writers - yay! Here are the missing pieces so you can do it yourself!
What is your plan for improvement as a writer, author this year in the areas of writing fundamentals, the business side, productivity and more? Here are some of my goals to inspire you to set yours!
A tip from a USA Today Bestselling author about how to get more reviews + other tactics for helping people find and rave about your book.
A new mindset habit I came up with over the holidays to "take the wind out of worry's sails" - AND as a bonus, a special adaptation of it for authors!
Answering YOUR questions about writing! When can you be a writer full time - and what I see as the bigger point here.
Specific benefits from reading books that I get as a writer - and you can get too! PLUS... a special announcement.
A poem that inspires me, what it has to do with authors AND a writing exercise for you.
Have you seen these posts too? "2019 can go blank itself..." - and before that 2018, 2017, etc. Here's my POV on that thinking and why it's damaging.
So much talk about New Year's resolutions & goals this time of year... but just as importantly - what habits do you want to LET GO of as an author moving into 2020? What is no longer serving your or acting as an obstacle?
One of my favorite poems and a message about being present in the midst of all the New Year's goal setting and resolutions.
Why character development is SO vital, the problems it can solve AND a character development exercise for you!
You deserve it - here's the 5th an final gift of our series to give yourself as a writer before the new year!
You deserve it! Here's the 4th of 5 gifts to give yourself as a writer before year's end.
For this week's Sunday Story Time - a holiday favorite AND how it connects to your role as an author.
How to make sure you're actually writing to your target audience and not just "targeting them" - hoping they'll buy your book anyway.
It's FAQs Friday and today I answer the question: "How many rounds of edits does my book need?"
Why it's SO important to set boundaries around what you say "yes" to (and add to your calendar).
How & why to take a rest day as an author AND how to know the difference between resting - and quitting.
It's a bitter truth for authors - there are people who will dislike your book and maybe even you. But before you let that be a reason to stop writing.... here's something about the critics that you need to know.
This week's Sunday Story Time book excerpt comes from a client book - "Red, White & Latina: Our American Identity" by Cristina Perez. And at the end of the excerpt I make a point about why books have a different kind of impact than other communication mediums.
What is it that we're still missing about the power of story? Whether in business, networking, social media posts and of course, books.... when in doubt - tell a story.
Today's question comes from Facebook: "What's your #1 piece of advice for an author who is self publishing their book?"
Writing a book is an exciting time, full of lots of creative energy and a flow state. So what happens when suddenly your (rough draft) manuscript is done? Here's a common situation that happens & my advice for getting through it!
A follow up to yesterday's episode (#242 12/09) - 7 journaling questions to cement your book writing WHY for 2020 so you can reach your writing goals!
Some examples of book writing "whys" from my authors & why you need one to power your 2020 writing goals!
This week's excerpt is a lesson about being real - and maybe even a little messy - in your online presence.
The 3rd and final piece of my 3-part Book Intro writing template for nonfiction authors.
Authors - your intro is one of THE most important parts of your book. It's your first opportunity to build trust & rapport with your reader! Here's part 2 of my 3 part template for writing a good one.
A story about finding personal empowerment & strength after a painful life loss. For more information about Jeannie's beautiful memoir, visit her at: https://www.facebook.com/jfredrickwrites
Today I answer the listener question - When can I call myself a "writer" or even an "author" + a personal story!
10 "year in review" gratitude questions to help you reflect on your life story from this year and set clear intentions and goals for the upcoming year!
The 3rd and final installment of "REAL" Reasons You're Not Writing Your Book - author mindset stuff!
The 2nd part of my "real reason you're not writing your book" series - talking author mindset!
The first in my 3-part series of why you're saying you're not writing your book but what the REAL reason might be!
For this week's Sunday Story Time & reader learning question - "From Trauma to Inner Peace: The 7 Day Pursuit of Happiness Mission" by Rashel Keshmiri.
3 tips from the "author side" (vs. marketer/PR) about how to reach more readers on your book launch day.
Today's question comes through my website christine-ink.com. What writing or book related question do YOU have for me? Contact me through my website and then listen on Fridays for your question to be answered!
Story should be used as a tool, not a crutch. Does this seem to go against my usual anthem here on the show, "When in doubt - story!" ? Listen and find out why it does not. This episode is for my nonfiction authors!
Today I pose a rather direct and very important journaling question for authors with a Work In Progress, related to something I heard from one of the speakers at a business conference I went to recently.
How to reconcile being a free spirited creative AND having solid habits/a routine that helps you reach your writing goals.
An excerpt from my project management book for creative freelancers "Nuke the Elephant: From Freelancer to Project Ringmaster" PLUS a lesson about narrowing down your target audience of readers.
Which do you think you have more control over - sales or reader impact? A lesson from the film "We Love You Sally Carmichael!"
One listener asks: "What are you reading now? What books do you enjoy?" Here's my answer PLUS my message to you about why reading is so important! Swing by my Ink Authors group on Facebook OR LinkedIn to let me know what books YOU like to read!
I thought of a new take on the question I get by far most frequently from aspiring authors - "Who care what I have to say?" And it might surprise you!
My "spark story" - how I became a writer. What sparked a passion for writing in you? Visit me at my Ink Authors group on Facebook AND LinkedIn and share your story!
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." -Lance Armstrong Does quitting on your book seem easier than fighting through to the finish line? Here are 3 of my best anti-quitting strategies to get you through!
3 questions to ask yourself when you feel like quitting your book is a perfectly reasonable and acceptable decision.
In this week's Sunday Story Time episode, I take you behind the scenes of working in a movie theater - and how badly your fellow moviegoers often behave there! "Dear Moviegoer: Tales From Behind the Velvet Curtains" by Margena Adams Holmes.
Today's episode is dedicated to reaching more readers (and selling more books!) through the power of content marketing. Here are 3 ideas for your author content - including one big one... a cutting edge idea that an alarmingly small percentage of people are doing!
It's Friday which means I'm answering questions you all submit to me through my Ink Authors groups on Facebook AND LinkedIn! Today's question - "What are the questions you ask yourself about a character to develop him/her? Do you go through a similar process with locations?"
200+ episodes in, I mention "writing fundamentals" at the top of every episode as one of the 3 determinants of a successful author - and it finally occurs to me that I've never discussed what the phrase means! Oops! Better late than never.
Super exciting #WriterWednesday today as USA Today & Amazon Bestselling author Rebecca Forster (known for her "Witness/Josie Bates" thrillers) offers a TON of valuable knowledge & tactics for authors of all experience levels. She also talks about the latest installment in the Witness series - "Lost Witness" - now available for pre-order, coming December 1st!
Part II of my best strategies for building rapport with your readers and keeping them engaged throughout your book (so they'll recommend it to others when they're done!).
My best strategies for building rapport with your readers and keeping them engaged throughout your book (so they'll recommend it to others when they're done!). Part I.
The conclusion to the story with an important life message I began on last week's episode - "Make a Wish."
Why do I love being self employed, a business owner, an entrepreneur SO much? And what is the distinction between those 3 labels?
It's "FAQs Friday" - where I answer the questions you've submitted via my Ink Authors group on Facebook & LinkedIn (yes, the group exists in both places now!). Here's today's question.
Happy Halloween! What more fitting tribute than listing the top 5 reasons why I love my job as as ghostwriter? Enjoy!
Hear words of "Ultralearning" wisdom from the man who learned MIT's 4 year computer science curriculum in 1 year without attending a single class! Scott also shares a valuable "square one" tip for first time authors. MUST LISTEN interview!
My tips for evoking emotions with your readers, WHY it's so important, and tips specifically on comedy & scary writing!
Thank you to all my listeners! Here are the top 10 lessons about writing fundamentals, productivity, and mindset habits from our first 200 episodes.
Here's part one of my "story with a message" for you - Make a Wish. Tune in for next week's Sunday Story Time to get the conclusion, and moral of the story.
"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own." -Gina Greenlee
I asked members of my "2019 graduating class of authors" - those who have completed and/or published their books this year - for advice to give to you about finishing YOUR book, and here's what they said.
Our first edition of "FAQs Friday" kicks off with this question I get quite a bit as a ghostwriter of 18 years - "What does a ghostwriter do?" I also answer "Who hires a ghostwriter?" Remember to visit my Ink Authors group on Facebook to submit your questions for future episodes!
How to "read analytically, like an author" - 3 questions to help you, plus why it won't lessen your reader experience.
It's a writer's adage you've probably heard at least once - "You need to go through "stuff" to write better." But is it true? Kind of. Here's my interpretation of what that means and what you can do about it!
Why being a prolific author, not aiming for "one hit wonder" is the best strategy today.
In today's episode, I identify 2 specific groups of authors who should consider self or indie publishing their books.
How do you define femininity? That's the subject of this week's book excerpt from 3 time Emmy winning television personality Judge Cristina Perez.
Here, I identify 2 groups of authors who specifically should consider traditional publishing over self or indie publishing.
How I cured my complete unwillingness to stop "only" doing client work long enough to write my own stuff, and became a rabid content creator for my own business and brand.
Let me tell you about one of my favorite author inventions - a Brand Bank: the story of how I invented it, why it's useful for authors and how to write yours! The guide I promise in the episode: http://theinkagency.net/product/brand-bank-guide/
4 things that are important in writing a book but not THE most important things... and then I reveal the #1 thing you need to write and finish writing your book.
What if I told you that, as an author, you have the SAME ability to create a wildly imaginative, thought-provoking story as they do in Hollywood? Let's play movies!
What is it about dialogue that instills fear in the hearts and minds of SO many authors? I explore that AND most importantly offer up a few of my best dialogue writing tips!
This week's Sunday Story Time features a powerful book excerpt that speaks to the power of the mind to affect our physical health - in often dramatic ways! Plus, as usual, a learning question you can apply to your own writing.
Find out the incredible power that scenes, especially dialogue-driven ones, can bring to your nonfiction book - memoirs, business, or personal development books included!
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about." -John Irving Developing habits might be your BEST tool for unlocking creativity...
Why it's more important to launch your book on YOUR timeline versus worrying about what others think and why it's okay if circumstances force you to change your timeline at the 11th hour.
"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." -Lance Armstrong. Revealing the times throughout my life I could have easily quit writing - why I kept going.
A special treat today for my YDWH listeners, as I interview bestselling author and "mental monsters" expert Kim Fiske, author of "The Monster Under the Bed: Uncovering the Lie that Drives Us." Struggling with writing your book, specifically writer's block? This episode is for you!
This week's Sunday Story Time features the book "The Monster Under the Bed: Uncovering the Lie That Drives Us" by Kim Fiske who is also a guest on an upcoming episode of Your Daily Writing Habit! What "monster lie" is keeping you from reaching your book writing goals?
"WHY are people the way they are???" Sitting in the frustration and angst of this question can eat a person up inside over the course of a lifetime. Fortunately as writers, we're equipped to dig deeper and come up with some answers.
What is the difference between creativity vs. imagination? Dictionary definitions and then MY definitions + tips for expanding both!
Sharing my "actionable" secret for accepting criticism as an author. (No, it's not "don't take it personally!")
We're approximately 90 days out from 2020 so what better time to review your 2019 writing goals & habits, celebrate your wins, and plan how you'll up level everything moving into the next year (and decade)!
Why I finally "caved" and joined TikTok, my mission there & why you might want to give it a shot too.
In this week's Sunday Story Time I read an emotional, powerful story of postpartum depression from the memoir of one of my amazing authors, Pamela Zimmer. And as always I include a learning question at the end to help YOUR book writing!
My very latest tips & best practices for authors on LinkedIn and WHY we all need to be there!
One recent acronym I created while marking up a book coaching client's manuscript is "LIU" - "Literary it up." Find out why that's important and HOW to do it in your nonfiction manuscript.
What kinds of questions do people typically ask later in their life and career and how might those questions turn into a powerful book that can affect future generations?
Learn about TWO different types of books to consider writing in the "career/expert" phase of your life and the potential impact of those books!
What are the challenges & potential impact of writing a book in your 20's? What's "Plan B" if you're too busy living life to write about it at this point in your life?
Why is your child writing a book? Or if they're not yet - why should you encourage them to do so?
In this week's Sunday Story Time, an excerpt from my client Dr. Amy Serin's book - "The Stress Switch." Look it up on Amazon and get your copy for the TRUTH about stress and how to short circuit it!
This is where I become your virtual coach and ask you a VERY real question about your plans to write your book... from the heart of course.
Question 6 of my author intake interview - what are your coping mechanisms for times you've gone outside your comfort zone and learned something new? AND as a bonus, my "circus story" of doing exactly that - going outside my comfort zone in THE most unexpected way possible!
Which books out there are similar to yours? WHY is it important that you ask this question, whether your planning on going the traditional publishing route or self publishing?
Let's face it - it's impossible to be a genius about EVERYTHING, even as the creative geniuses we are! Before you get started writing your book, assess where you might need help along the way. Be honest with yourself now and your book writing process will go more smoothly later.
Get the first two questions I ask new authors in my "client intake interview" and why they're important for YOU to ask yourself.
What we as authors can learn from how people usually throw any sort of healthy eating habits into the wind (get it?) during natural disasters like hurricanes. How to harness chaos and use it to your advantage!
In this week's Sunday Story Time an excerpt from the book "A Bum Deal: An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian" by Barry M. Soper and Rufus Hannah. Also including a study question that you can use while writing YOUR memoir!
My LAST 2 writer productivity tips. Get the full set here: https://toptenproductivitytips.com/productive-habits-get-writing-done/
My next 2 writer productivity tips. Get the full set here: https://toptenproductivitytips.com/productive-habits-get-writing-done/
My next 2 writer productivity tips. Get the full set here: https://toptenproductivitytips.com/productive-habits-get-writing-done/
My next 2 writer productivity tips. Get the full set here: https://toptenproductivitytips.com/productive-habits-get-writing-done/
SUPER exciting episode of YDWH today, where I interview bestselling author (and so much more!) Nir Eyal. His latest book "Indistractable" launches TODAY and in this episode he talks about distraction, attention/focus, and the truth about the popular buzz phrase "internet addiction." Learn more about Nir & his book at: https://www.nirandfar.com/
Here are my first 2 writer productivity tips. Get the full set here: https://toptenproductivitytips.com/productive-habits-get-writing-done/
In this week's episode of Sunday Story Time, I read an excerpt from Laura Herring's book "No Fear Allowed: A Story of Guts, Perseverance & Making An Impact" AND give you a related study question you can use in your own writing.
Here's an exercise you can use to add impact to even the most seemingly mundane scenes and moments in your book writing.
How screenwriting can help you master the art of brevity to add even MORE impact to your books!
What is a screenplay logline & what does it have to do with an author's reader promise statement?
I learned some incredible writing lessons during my screenwriting years in L.A. - here's my story of how that all happened and what it has to do with you as an author.
What if your reason for writing your book - whether personal, business or otherwise - CHANGES as you're writing it? Here's what to do if that happens!
What are the different versions of "why" that can fuel your book writing? Why is "why" important?
In this week's Sunday Story Time, I read a very dramatic excerpt from the book "Shift the Narrative: A Blind Man's Vision for Rewriting the Stories That Limit Us" by author Russell Redenbaugh. You can get your copy of his book for free at: https://www.shiftthenarrative.com
FIVE tips for holding yourself accountable to your writing goals but without sucking the fun out of your book writing project in the process.
It's the seemingly "easiest" part of my Book Blueprint process but it's also the one that can make or break your book project. Learn how to create your Project Timetable.
What writing wisdom can we as authors learn from the simple brilliance of Dr. Seuss? Let's find out!
My biggest reason of all for not trying to substantially edit your book before you even finish writing your rough draft!
3 reasons not to edit your book as you're still writing your rough draft (substantially anyway; as in getting lost in the editing weeds and forgetting to FINISH writing it!).
This week's Sunday Story Time on YDWH features an excerpt about the power of friendship from my client Cristina Perez's memoir "Living by Los Dichos."
Are you ready for some football? In this series on YDWH I'm connecting the dots between some valuable lessons that can be found in writing a book AND in football! Here's 3 of 4.
Are you ready for some football? In this series on YDWH I'm connecting the dots between some valuable lessons that can be found in writing a book AND in football! Here's the 2nd of 4 lessons.
Are you ready for some football? In this series on YDWH I'm connecting the dots between some valuable lessons that can be found in writing a book AND in football! Here's the first one.
Day 10: Final Thoughts, Tips & Resources If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author -this challenge is designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’ve covered things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more. Remember to swing by my “Ink Authors” group on Facebook for questions and progress reports.
Day 9 of our Your Daily Writing Habit Author Content Challenge features website, online marketing & brand expert Shannon Sharesky of Creative Apogee. Ready to talk about the impact of author brand on your book content, do's and don'ts of visual content and more? Let's go! To learn more about Shannon: http://creativeapogee.com/
Day 8: Time to create some content! If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more. Remember to swing by my “Ink Authors” group on Facebook for questions and progress reports.
Day 7: Author Audio Revolution! If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more. Remember to swing by my “Ink Authors” group on Facebook for questions and progress reports.
Day 6: Keys to Writing Great Articles/Blogs! If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more. Remember to swing by my “Ink Authors” group on Facebook for questions and progress reports.
Day 5: Breaking your 6 Month Content Strategy Down Into Weeks & Days If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more. Remember to swing by my “Ink Authors” group on Facebook for questions and progress reports.
Day 4: Where to Post Content If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more!
Day 3: 6 Message Pillars If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more!
Day 2: Know Thy Audience! If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more!
Day one: Basic Author Brand Questions
If you’ve been looking for some guidance on the social media and online content aspect of being an author - the next 10 days are designed especially for YOU. During this challenge I’m covering things like content strategy, the basics of written and visual content creation, the new wave of audio content authors should be thinking about, and more!
Playing with a potential new feature here on YDWH - Sunday Story Time, where I read excerpts from books, mainly memoirs (my specialty) and then pose an activity question for all of you working on YOUR books! Let me know what you think - join my "Ink Authors" group on Facebook.
Why consider having an author brand vs. just launching "a book"? This episode of Your Daily Writing Habit reveals why!
The simplicity and power of this often overlooked reason to write a book, might just blow your mind...
Authors - having some trouble coming up with your next book idea? Or with adding layers to your current one? Try this brainstorming technique from Tim Ferriss (author of "The 4 Hour Work Week").
The 3rd lesson I learned from the writing my memoir and how it can help you if you're doing the same!
Here's the 2nd lesson I learned from writing my memoir: Facts are a helluva lot easier than feelings!
Here is the first of 3 lessons I've learned from walking in my clients' shoes after all these years and finally writing my memoir!
Coming up with a book idea is easy! Writing & finishing it? That's often more of a challenge! But if you have a game plan, you have an edge of those who are "winging it." Here are my 3 big game plan tips.
In the absence of the "spark of obligation" (publisher deadline, business commitment where your book is required) - how can you get your book done with the same level of commitment & urgency?
Tackling a big one - "How do I find time to write a book?" with my "time audit" exercise - super simple to do & it can yield some awesome ah-ha's!
It's a HABITS day on Your Daily Writing Habit! I share about my daily habits worksheet, my why for daily exercise, and how YOU can translate that into your writing habit.
My final creativity enhancing strategy for authors! How far will YOU take this one? Remember to report back with your results in my "Ink Authors" group on Facebook!
My second "creativity enhancing tip" for authors might surprise you - but in a fun way! ;) And PS the expert who I mention in this episode, in case you want to look her up: Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway, PhD.
Writing a book and feeling creatively blocked? Here's one way to boost your creativity!
All sorts of fun in this episode - fun with overthinking, fun with circus tricks, and most importantly, fun with book writing!
My final tip (see prior episodes too!) for building rapport with your readers from page one - your most important responsibility as a nonfiction author.
My next tip for creating rapport with your readers from page one and keeping it for the length of your book - STORY! How to do it well...
My next tip for building rapport with your readers from page one and then KEEPING it for the length of your book.
Why it's SO important to build rapport with your readers from page one and a tip for doing it.
My next tip for breaking through procrastination so you can finish writing your book - accountability (plus a free resource).
My FAVORITE author productivity strategy ever: how to leave your writing session while still preserving "flow" for next time!
My first tip for declaring your independence from procrastination so you can finish writing your book!
Today I reveal my litmus test for whether a scene really "pops" and is strong enough to hold a reader's attention.
How to add in all those "author frills" and translate literal dialogue to figurative to make your scene pop! (For fiction AND nonfiction authors.)
Going all "vulcan" on our dialogue writing today to learn about subtext and context. Let's have some fun! (For fiction AND nonfiction authors.)
Explaining what a story "beat" is and why it matters scenes and stories in fiction AND nonfiction books.
Mapping out 3 key pieces of a well-written scene. (For fiction AND nonfiction authors!)
Writing great scenes means writing great characters. Whether you're writing a fiction OR nonfiction book, here are two questions to answer about each "character" (i.e. person for nonfiction authors) in your book.
Keys to designing the logistics of a well-crafted scene. (For fiction AND nonfiction authors!)
Questions to ask to help you determine the goal of your scene(s) and therefore craft them better.
To do something well, we must study the works of others who have already done it well. Here is a step-by-step exercise for studying a great scene.
Tip #4 for how NOT to solicit feedback on your book in progress: Peanut Gallery Rabbit Holes.
Kurt Vonnegut's Rules 7-8 for creative writing along with my nonfiction author adaptations.
Vonnegut's Rules 5-6 for creative writing along with my adaptations for nonfiction authors.
Kurt Vonnegut's Rules 3-4 for creative writing & my adaptations for nonfiction writers.
Kurt Vonnegut's first two rules for creative writing along with my adaptations for nonfiction authors.
Here's how to craft a working book title strong enough to inspire & guide your book writing journey.
Today I'm talking about the book publishing process, specifically any expectations you have about how long it "should" take to write and publish your book.
Sometimes, believe it or not, your creative brain needs a mental "nap" to recharge itself and make you a better writer. Here are my 3 tips for doing that!
Here are my final book development questions to help you create a TOP quality book that will make your readers love you! See episodes 73-76 for all my questions.
Writing a great book like becoming successful in ANY craft, requires a high degree of preparation. Here are my next book development questions to help you create a top quality book right out of the gate!
Here's my next set of book development questions to help you develop a top quality book that readers cannot put down! Today's set goes to your heart & gut so get ready for ALL the feels.
Writing a book, like success in sports, requires a high degree of preparation. Here are my first two questions to ask yourself to develop a top quality book!
When is it enough? When do you call your manuscript done? Here's my third and MOST actionable tip for doing exactly that!
How do you "define your done" when finishing the edits on your book and sending it off to press? Here's my second tip to make it happen!
What do you call your manuscript DONE and send it off to print? Here is my first tip for ending your edits!
How can you craft a captivating opening scene for your memoir? Today I talk about how to blow up the most seemingly "small" life event into something with greater meaning.
If you memoir were a movie how would it open? In today's episode I reveal 3 things to include in your opening scene to help draw in your readers.
The first set of a movie - AND a book - sets the tone for the rest of the story. So how can you write such a captivating opening scene to your memoir that readers can't wait to turn the page? Here's one way...
If your memoir were a movie how would it open? How can you write a captivating opening scene that makes readers lean in and want to learn more? Here's one way...
In today's episode I share with you 3 types of life stories that can make a captivating opening scene for your memoir!
Two brand new questions to help you choose which book idea is the right idea to write now!
How do you narrow down your book ideas to the right book idea to write now? Here are two personal, internally directed questions to help you do just that!
How do you narrow down your book ideas to the right book idea to write now? Here are my first two questions to help you do just that!
My final "memoir to journaling" tip - pretend someone in the future is reading your words. What do you want them to know about you and the life you lived?
As authors we have the unique advantage of being able to LIVE our lives while also seeing the story line as its unfolding. In today's episode, I give you a specific tool you can use to do that!
Exploring the parallels between memoir writing & journaling, today's technique addresses the power of writing to make sense of life... or not. You have a choice with your words - heal, or hurt.
One memoir writing technique you can use to help your journaling practice: When judging your life, be an honest jury but a fair and compassionate judge. Find out why I think memoir writing and journaling are SO parallel!
In today's episode I answer a FAQ from fiction and non-fiction authors: How do I write more interesting scenes? Here are my 5 ways of adding some spice to your scenes!
Too busy to start writing your book? That's okay, but here are some journaling questions for you about the goals and "why" of your future book, especially from a business standpoint.
Not ready to start writing your book? No problem! Here's a simple prep task you can do to stay connected to your book idea AND give yourself a head start for when you ARE ready to start writing.
Not quite ready to start writing your book? No problem! Here's a simple thing you can do in the meantime though, to stay plugged into your future book project.
Today's episode is specifically for those of you writing your memoir. I give you 4 key questions you can ask to decide which life stories and scenes include in your memoir to provide the most value for your readers.
This is for those of you who are afraid to write a book because of the risk of embarrassment. Why this is actually a GOOD thing and how to deal with it.
Addressing the common objection - "I can't write a book because I'm not a (professional) writer." How & why you should get started anyway!
9 questions you can ask to get clarity on your book which will make it 9 times easier to start writing it!
One of the most common objections I hear from people when it comes to writing a book, along with my response.
Another super valuable tip for when you're getting ready to launch & promote your book! The critical first step in laying a solid foundation for your content marketing strategy.
My pro tip/invention for turning your book's content into a veritable marketing content vault! (This is a SUPER valuable one today - SHARE!)
Like it or not, as an author you are now part of a long lineage. Here's what that means and what you have in common with all the authors before you (even the famous ones).
The first life to be changed by your words will always be your own as the author. Here is why it's okay to be selfish about your "why" for writing a book.
No matter how personal, how strange - you DO have an audience for your words. I promise you. 18 years experience. Seriously. Yes - your readers are waiting!
What's the worst that could happen? My argument for sharing the thoughts in your head as words on the page!
Here's why I'm obsessed with the number three and how you can use it to structure the writing of your book.
Here's a brief history & step-by-step description of one of my favorite writing productivity techniques.
If you're waiting for "spare time" in which to write your book - it will never happen. Here's why...
How can you WRITE a great book if you don't know what a great book looks like? Here are my tips on that!
A FAQ I get from my authors is how soon they should start marketing their book. Here's my answer!
Learn the final 2 steps of my Book Blueprint process for authors, and create THE most solid foundation for your future book!
A strong foundation creates a better book! Today I share the first two steps of one of my inventions - the Book Blueprint - and walk you through how to implement them in YOUR book development process.
Find out how to keep consistent with your writing habit over the summer & why it's important to do so.
Going into the summer, here's the first piece of my 3 part "pep talk" to keep your book project on track.
Learn how fiction gives you specific literary tools to write a better NON fiction (business, memoir, etc.) book.
Today we'll look at how reading fiction helps you understand people & human nature better and why that is key to writing nonfiction well!
In today's habit, learn how reading fiction books on a regular basis will do wonders for your nonfiction storytelling ability!
Find out how reading fiction on a regular basis can help you write a BETTER nonfiction book!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 24: Mixing Metaphors. If "Mary ran like a cheetah with the speed of a race car lapping a runaway freight train..." - you have a metaphor mixing problem.
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 23: Run-On Sentences. It takes a run-on sentence addict to know one - here's how you can tell if you have this problem.
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 22: Tense & POV. When to establish your writing tense/POV & then what NOT to do!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 21: Overall Reading Experience. What are the keys to crafting a consistent reading experience?
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 20: Book Tone. What is the emotional tone of your book and why is it so important to establish it early?
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 19: Organization & Vision. Here are some of the questions I ask as I'm reviewing author manuscripts, to determine whether an author's vision for their manuscript is clear.
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 18: Emotional Bridges. Today I'm revealing the "negative emotions" that might block you as an author & how to convert them into positive, productive emotions!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 17: Can You Write 3 Sentences a Day? Think you're too busy to write a book? I have an inspirational story & message for you to change that mindset NOW!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 16: Which book do I write first? When you have too many book ideas, how do you know which one to write first? 6 questions to ask yourself to narrow it down!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 15: Quality First! Today's tip reveals one of the most common mistakes I see made by first time authors.
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 14: How Long Should My Book Be? This is a common question I get from authors, nonfiction and fiction alike and in today's flash briefing - I answer it for you!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 13: What Makes a Book Great - Breadcrumbs. This literary tool builds suspense for readers and helps them "connect dots" for a more organized, attention-grabbing reading experience.
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 12: What Makes a Book Great - Bookends. Find out what "bookends" are, what movie put them on the map, and how to use them in your own writing.
In episode 10 of Your Daily Writing Habit I will introduce you to my FAVORITE type of book that I write for clients - the self-help memoir. I'll also give you a quick writing exercise to help you start writing yours. Enjoy!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 09Tips for Reviving an Old Book Writing Project:Walk Away!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 08Tips for Reviving an Old Book Writing Project:Lights, Camera, Action!
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 07Tips for Reviving an Old Book Writing Project:Character Journaling
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 06Tips for Reviving an Old Book Writing Project:Focus On Your Closing Line.
Your Daily Writing Habit - Episode 05Tips for Reviving an Old Book Writing Project:Focus On Your Opening Line.
Your Daily Writing Habit Episode 4: Giving Yourself a Jump Back In Point. Today's daily writing habit is a brief but important one and also one of my favorites. I call it "stopping in the middle."
In this episode you will learn why establishing a daily writing habit is crucial to your success as an author!